Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. sent a clear message to investors on Thursday: Our spending on artificial intelligence and cloud computing is paying off.

Generative AI is entering the corporate application fields and bringing in practical challenges.

Japan-based electric motor manufacturer Nidec is reducing its products for the Chinese EV sector and planning to increase its sales of electric motors for industrial machinery in the US. Both measures aim to improve Nidec’s profit. Its net income will likely hit JPY165 billion (US$1.06 billion) in fiscal 2024, which ends in March 2025.

In addressing high computing costs for Generative AI (GenAI), there is a market gap in on-device AI model fine-tuning computation between cloud AI servers and AI PC terminals.