Japan Teams With Nvidia and Noetra to Build National AI Factory With 27,500 Rubin GPUs

Japan has unveiled what officials describe as the world's first national AI infrastructure, a project that will pair Nvidia's next-generation Rubin chips with a domestic industrial consortium to power the country's ambitions in robotics and physical AI. The initiative, announced on July 16, 2026, centers on a "Vera Rubin AI factory" to be built by Noetra Corp. in partnership with Nvidia, and is designed to serve as the computing backbone for a government-backed effort to develop foundation models for machines that operate in the physical world.