Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN)'s official account Japanese account: @PreferredNetJP
Tokyo, Japan and Berkeley, CA
Joined December 2014
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📢PFN is accepting pre-applications for 2028 new grads
Registrants will receive updates regarding our official application process and tech events for students.
Pre-apply here: forms.gle/AzEsKMEn7J9oYMM67
PFN group delivering full-stack AI tech from custom chips to end-user service: PFN and PFCI will start accelerating selected calculations (for crystal structures, etc.) on the Matlantis™ materials simulator with PFN's MN-Core™ 2 AI chips in 2026.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and PFN have entered into an agreement under which MHI plans to invest 10 billion yen in PFN to jointly develop AI technologies to enhance the intelligence and autonomy of machinery and systems across mission-critical domains. preferred.jp/en/news/pr20260…
Preferred Networks retweeted
Today we're launching “Rustuna”, a faster Optuna implementation written in Rust ⚡️
Rustuna is designed as a faster alternative to Optuna, with a familiar API, a lower memory footprint, and no Python runtime dependencies. See how it compares with Optuna in the benchmark below 👇
During Steam's official event PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026, we will hold a 40% discount sale to celebrate our PC game “Omega Crafter” surpassing 100,000 players (including demo) preferred.jp/en/news/pr20260…
Together with the Qualcomm Japan Robotics Center, we will leverage PFN's foundation model expertise, Qualcomm' computing platforms and Japan's manufacturing ecosystem to accelerate deployment of practical physical AI applications in Japan. qualcomm.com/news/releases/2…
How does Matlantis-PFP v9 perform on each MLIP Arena task? We published task-by-task results, covering five tasks: homonuclear diatomics, equation of state, energy-volume scans, stability, and combustion. tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/ma…
We released Matlantis-PFP v9. Elemental coverage now spans 96 elements (H–Cm) including lanthanides and actinides, with improved experimental agreement via r2SCAN. We also discuss the benchmark evaluation using MLIP Arena and future development directions.
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Please exercise caution: We have recently confirmed suspicious communications in which unrelated third parties are conducting recruitment activities while falsely claiming to represent our company or our group companies, often using fictitious job titles.
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PFN 2025 summer intern Boming Yang explores the translation and evaluation challenges in building a strong PLaMo™-based Japanese reward model. tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/bu…
Preferred Networks will invest in Noetra and participate in its project focused on Japan-developed multimodal foundation model for Physical AI. preferred.jp/en/news/pr20260…
At a recent 🇫🇷CEA-Leti event, Takahiro Ogura, President of PFN’s AI Computing Division, introduced the MN-Core™ Partner Program. We’re inviting partners to help build businesses powered by MN-Core AI chips! Details👉 preferred.jp/downloads/mn-co…
PFN CFO Yotaro Katayama joined the Japan-India Joint Economic Forum in Delhi yesterday in support of the 🇮🇳🇯🇵 PMs' joint statement on AI cooperation. Looking forward to future collaborations with Indian companies!
PFN has teamed up with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to make Japan-made AI for mission-critical fields by combining MHI’s hardware, control & simulation technologies with PFN’s AI expertise. We also aim to establish a capital alliance within FY2026. preferred.jp/en/news/pr20260…
Preferred Networks retweeted
#FrontierResearchCenter and Preferred Networks, Inc. are conducting joint research on physical AI that leverages large-scale data. Today, PFN announced a collaborative research initiative to accelerate inference processing by integrating PFN’s MN‑Core™ L series—an inference-
We have started joint research with Toyota's Frontier Research Center to accelerate physical AI using our upcoming ultra-high-bandwidth AI inference chips in the MN-Core L Series for robots which typically require high-speed on-premise inference
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PFN Co-Founder & CEO @hillbig will speak at Imec Technology Forum #ITFWorld2026 in Antwerp, Belgium at 4:30pm CET today. Theme: "Chips for AI, AI for Chips: Redesigning AI from Materials up" Abstract: imecitf.com/world/main-progr…
Visit the PFN desk in the Microsoft Japan booth (A103, West 3) at #SusHiTechTokyo2026 today and tomorrow! PFN's global biz VP and MS Japan's CTO will be on Green Stage (1st floor) today at 17:15-18:00 to discuss integration of Azure between our PLaMo LLM
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Hiring now: MN-Core runtime software engineer open.talentio.com/r/1/c/pref…
Hiring now: MN-Core compiler engineer
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