Japanese multinational NEC is developing an underwater acoustics foundation model designed to bring generative AI capabilities similar to large language models to underwater acoustic data.
NEC has been awarded a contract by Japan’s Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Agency under its Innovative Breakthrough Research program to develop the model using self-supervised learning.
NEC will collect training data through public-private partnerships, allowing the model to learn from large volumes of underwater acoustic data.
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