Nvidia Deepens Japan Ties With Mitsubishi Heavy And Toyota — While China Access Remains A Separate Story - Meanwhile, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries also announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Nvidia to support the buildout of next-generation AI factories and high-density data centers. - Nvidia also announced late Wednesday that it is broadening its long-standing partnership with Toyota Motor Corp. to deploy AI technologies across smart cities, traffic management systems, and manufacturing facilities. - On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around NVDA stock slipped from ‘extremely bullish’ to ‘bullish’ over 24 hours, while message volume remained ‘high.’ Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) is gaining traction in Japan amid growing AI demand, the company said. The chipmaker announced on Wednesday that leading Japanese enterprises, startups and research institutions are building industry-specialized AI models and applications with its Nemotron open models, data and libraries. This is to speed up the development of AI tailored to the Japanese language and the country’s local industries and workforce. “Every nation and every company should own and control its intelligence infrastructure. Open models make that possible,” CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. “Together with Japan’s AI leaders, we are advancing an open AI ecosystem that accelerates discovery, strengthens national capability and ensures every society can participate in — and benefit from — the AI revolution.” The news comes even as the U.S. has restricted access to Nvidia’s technology in China amid rising competition and security concerns. Nvidia’s top-tier H200 chips and high-end graphics card, the RTX 5090D V2, are banned from export to China, although the U.S. permits it to ship some less advanced models, such as Blackwell chips. Mitsubishi Heavy Announces Collaboration Over AI Factory Infrastructure Meanwhile, Japan’s leading engineering, electrical equipment, and electronics company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), also announced it is expanding its collaboration with