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In Japan's digital transformation drive, Upstage LLM sets up David vs Goliath battles

By Jeyup S Kwaak ( November 25, 2025, 08:56 GMT | Insight) -- Valued at $157 million as of August, Upstage AI may seem like a minnow next to giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. But the B2B AI startup based in Seoul, San Francisco and Tokyo says there are gaps underserved by the heavyweights that smaller large-language models are better placed to fill at a fraction of the cost.Valued at $157 million as of August, Upstage AI may seem like a minnow next to giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. But the B2B AI startup based in Seoul, San Francisco and Tokyo says there are gaps underserved by the heavyweights that smaller large-language models, or LLMs, are better placed to fill at a fraction of the cost....

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