The companies will aim to expand their mutual business through the partnership, actively considering exchanging personnel to jointly promote projects with customers and to share AI-related knowledge and expertise. Fujitsu's enormous customer base in Japan and comprehensive ICT capabilities will tie in nicely with Grid's machine learning and deep learning technologies expertise. According to Fujitsu, this partnership is a result of the third round of the MetaArc Venture Program, a part of Fujitsu's open innovation initiatives, which provides opportunities for alignment between Fujitsu's business units and startups.