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CyberAgent Also Establishes Animation AI Lab

CyberAgent announced on Wednesday that it has established a new business unit named "Animation AI Lab," which will focus on researching and developing processes for animation production using generative artificial intelligence and large language models. CyberAgent's previously established "AI Lab" research and development group and its Game & Entertainment Division's AI strategic unit co-founded the new unit. The new unit will focus on areas such as generating backgrounds, character images, character animation, sound, and music.

CyberAgent also established a similar AI-focused business unit named "Game AI Lab" on Wednesday, with the unit focused on game development.

CyberAgent established its AI Lab group in 2016, and it debuted its first large language model based on Japanese in May 2023.

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Sony in February 2021 with the goals to strengthen the Global Media Mix Strategy to expand Kadokawa's IPs worldwide, and to cooperate with CyberAgent and Sony for "mutual exploitation of each other's business, expertise, and other strengths."

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Sources: Tadashi Sudo)

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