Preferred Networks and PFDeNA launch joint research project to develop a deep learning-based system to detect 14 types of cancers with a small amount of blood

Preferred Networks releases version 5 of both the open source deep learning framework, Chainer and the general-purpose array calculation library, CuPy.

Preferred Networks unveils a personal robot system at CEATEC Japan 2018, exhibiting fully-autonomous tidying-up robots

Preferred Networks hired Professor Takeo Igarashi of The University of Tokyo as a Technical Advisor

Preferred Networks releases deep learning-based, high-precision, visual inspection software

Preferred Networks wins second place in the Google AI Open Images – Object Detection Track, competed with 454 teams

Preferred Networks will exhibit at CEATEC JAPAN 2018 with CEO Toru Nishikawa scheduled to make a keynote speech titled “Robots for Everyone”

Preferred Networks raises a total of about 900 million yen in capital from Chugai Pharmaceutical and Tokyo Electron

Office expansion

Preferred Networks received the Best Paper Award on Human-Robot Interaction in ICRA 2018.

Chainer awarded the Open Source Data Science Project Award Winner at ODSC East 2018

Preferred Networks Executive Appointments