The US and Japan have formed a $110 million partnership to fund AI research, involving tech giants such as Nvidia and Microsoft.

The initiative includes collaborations between the University of Washington and the University of Tsukuba, as well as between Carnegie Mellon University and Keio University.

Research will focus on multimodal and multi-lingual learning, embodied AI, and AI for robots.

This partnership is the third significant university-corporate collaboration between the two nations, aiming to propel global AI innovation.

Microsoft separately commits to a $2.9 billion investment in Japan for expanding hyperscale cloud computing and AI capabilities.

The collective efforts are part of the Biden administration's strategy to work with allies on AI advancement and to regulate AI use in government.