Stockmark Inc., a provider of domestically developed generative AI infrastructure and generative AI services, announced that it has been selected for the “Research and Development on Making Manufacturing Data and Other Data AI-Ready” program under Phase 4 of “GENIAC,” a project run by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NEDO to strengthen domestic generative AI development capabilities. Following the selection, Stockmark will collaborate with 16 leading Japanese companies to launch the “AI-Ready Project for Japanese Companies’ Tacit Knowledge and Internal Data.” The project will define specific use cases with each participating company, promote AI readiness at each organization, and ultimately publish the AI-ready know-how obtained through the project to accelerate the social implementation of generative AI across Japanese business. The background is that, in business use of generative AI, general-purpose AI trained mainly on public internet data is considered insufficient in terms of expertise and reliability. The next phase urgently requires the use of non-public data held within companies. However, in core Japanese industries such as manufacturing, much information is managed as unstructured data such as drawings and manuals, while expert know-how often remains tacit and undocumented. Completing AI utilization internally requires advanced expertise and substantial labor. Stockmark will therefore work with 16 top-running Japanese companies to conduct proof-of-concept projects that convert confidential data and expert knowledge into formats that AI can learn from and use, a process referred to as making data AI-ready. Stockmark has supported many companies through generative AI solutions including its proprietary domestic generative AI infrastructure, the manufacturing AI agent “Aconnect,” and the autonomous AI operations platform “SAT Agent Cockpit.” In this project, Stockmark will apply the knowledge gained through these efforts and collaborate wi