経済産業省
METI
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. It leads GENIAC to strengthen domestic AI development and speed up its use in industry.
Shisa.AI × Japan
Shisa.AI and Japan's GENIAC program.
Shisa.AI is a listed domestic foundation-model developer under Japan's GENIAC program. Our models were trained with GENIAC compute support and are in use in GENIAC-PRIZE projects.
- Jun 2025Top-scoring model trained in JapanShisa V2 405B, trained with METI GENIAC compute, beat all three of METI's benchmark targets. NEDO's FY2025 model summary credits it with the highest benchmark score of any model trained in Japan as of June 6, 2025.
- Jul 2026Official domestic model developerMETI and NEDO list Shisa.AI as a domestic foundation-model developer for GENIAC-PRIZE, alongside NTT, NEC and Fujitsu.
- FY2025Two GENIAC-PRIZE projects on ShisaNEDO's results catalog includes a factory translation agent and a patent-examination agent, both built on Shisa models.
- Dec 202591% fewer biased refusalsNEDO-Safety-Qwen2.5-7b-Instruct, our open model for GENIAC-PRIZE's safety competition, cut bias-triggered refusals from 58 of 180 test prompts to 5.
The program
How METI, NEDO and GENIAC fit together.
新エネルギー・産業技術総合開発機構
NEDO
The national research and development agency that runs GENIAC with METI, including the GENIAC-PRIZE competitions.
GENIAC
Compute support for model builders, shared data and know-how, and prize programs that put domestic models to work.
01 · Listed
Recognized as a Japanese Foundation Model Developer
国産基盤モデル開発事業者JAPANESE FOUNDATION MODEL DEVELOPERS
Shisa.AI is officially listed on METI & NEDO's GENIAC program, named alongside Fujitsu, NEC, Rakuten, Preferred Networks and the National Institute of Informatics.
Teams entering GENIAC-PRIZE's social-implementation track must build on a listed domestic model, and Shisa models qualify.
Also in the record
Shisa-v2 appears in NEDO's FY2025 GENIAC-PRIZE model summary, and Shisa is on the developer list dated October 8, 2026.
Sources: FY2025 model summary (PDF) · developer list, October 8, 2026 (XLSX) · our July 2026 announcement
02 · Built
Open models, trained on GENIAC compute.
The Shisa V2 family was trained on compute from Ubitus and METI's GENIAC program. The models, and the checkpoints along the way, are public.
Apr 2025
Shisa V2
Six Japanese–English bilingual models, from 7B to 70B parameters, released with open weights.
- 7B
- 8B
- 12B
- 14B
- 32B
- 70B
Jun 2025
Shisa V2 405B, measured against METI's targets
The model card reports each target set for the program alongside the score achieved.
ELYZA Tasks 100 4.44 target ≥ 4.1
Japanese MT-Bench 9.18 target ≥ 8.1
llm-jp-eval 0.748 target ≥ 0.7
achieved METI target
2025
The development record, in public
Checkpoints and ablations from the GENIAC training runs are published, so the path to each model can be inspected.
03 · Made safer
Fewer biased refusals, without losing quality.
For GENIAC-PRIZE's safety competition we released NEDO-Safety-Qwen2.5-7b-Instruct, an open model that targets refusals triggered by bias. On our test set, those refusals fell from 58 of 180 prompts to 5, while the measured Japanese MT-Bench score went up.
04 · Put to work
Two GENIAC-PRIZE projects built on Shisa.
Both appear in NEDO's FY2025 GENIAC-PRIZE results catalog.
Collaboration · Manufacturing
Junto, with Katayama Industry
A real-time translation and knowledge-capture agent for a family-run automotive parts maker with sites in Japan, the US and Mexico. It keeps factory know-how from retiring with the experts, and lets teams across countries talk without an interpreter.
NEDO FY2025 results catalog, p. 39 · PDF
Adoption · Government review
GENIAC-Patent AI, by KIRIKO.tech
An agent that helps patent examiners work through applications, built on Shisa-v2-70B with retrieval. KIRIKO.tech chose it for its grasp of Japanese patent language and because an open model can run on premises or in a private cloud.
NEDO FY2025 results catalog, p. 150 · PDF
05 · Timeline
The record, in order.
Shisa V2 released, crediting Ubitus and METI GENIAC for training compute.
BlogShisa V2 405B published with results against METI's targets.
Model cardPress coverage of Shisa and Japan's domestic-model effort, from DG Lab Haus and Cherubic Ventures.
DG LabShisa-v2 in NEDO's model summary for GENIAC-PRIZE.
PDFShisa V2.1 released, and the safety competition model published.
BlogThe FY2025 results catalog includes Junto with Katayama Industry, and KIRIKO.tech's patent agent on Shisa-v2-70B.
PDFListing announced: Shisa.AI among 21 domestic foundation-model developers.
PR TIMESDeveloper list (Oct 8, 2026) includes Shisa, with V2.1 and 405B.
XLSX
For GENIAC-PRIZE applicants
Build your entry on a listed domestic model.
We work with applicants on model choice, private deployment and Japanese-language tuning, from proposal to results.