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NTT starts accepting applications for its in-house LLM tsuzumi

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Began accepting applications for the commercial service of its in-house LLM tsuzumi — a lightweight, Japanese-specialized approach

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The starting point of a Japanese telecom approach that, instead of following the parameter-count race, set its course toward lightweight models specialized in the national language

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