On April 10th 2017, Yasuhiro Fujita, an engineer of Preferred Networks, starts working at OpenAI as a visiting research scientist in San Francisco, California.

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company, in which many famous researchers are working on the fundamental problems in AI, and making the intellectual property and research open to public.

Yasuhiro Fujita is a passionate researcher of game-playing AI, and the creator of ChainerRL, a deep reinforcement learning library on top of Chainer.

During his assignment until September, Fujita will be contributing to OpenAI’s research projects and later making his achievements public.

Preferred Networks, as an active member of the research community, will keep its strong commitment to the advancement of the research in this field throughout similar collaborations and initiatives.