Realized with rinna LLM Solution "Tamashiru Custom". Enables voice interaction with AI characters that retain memories
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(Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Jean "Cliff" Chen; hereafter "rinna"), adgrove, Inc. (Location: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Hiroshi Kobayashi; hereafter "adgrove") and Kopel, Inc: (Location: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Nobuyuki Otsubo; hereinafter "Kopel") announce the launch of "Kopeln Home," an AI dialogue service utilizing the Tamashiru Custom LLM solution. This service is a joint project in which rinna provides LLM as Tamashiru Custom and adgrove is responsible for front-end development.
background
Kopel is an educational company that offers a curriculum that draws out the maximum potential in children, and has 70 preschool locations throughout Japan. The company boasts the No. 1 number of teaching materials used in the industry and is highly regarded for its lessons that hone children's IQ and sensitivity. In response to feedback from preschools facing challenges in their efforts to provide early childhood education, such as the rut of childcare and the difficulty of building trusting relationships with parents, the company developed the whole-brain educational AI system "Kopel N" (Kopeln).
Kopern is a system that uses the methods and AI technology of the Kopern early childhood classroom to provide educational content and the ability to engage in AI dialogue. With easy access to over 5,000 digital educational materials filled with Kopel lessons, this solution is designed to differentiate childcare services and improve satisfaction among parents who use the service.
rinna supports the development of Japanese-language AI in Japan through the release of pre-trained infrastructure models. In the summer of 2023, we began offering Tamashiru Custom, an LLM solution that brings together our LLM research and development expertise, and we have responded to customer needs in a wide range of industries by supporting the use and implementation of LLM specialized for the Japanese language.
The recently launched Koperun Home is a service that allows users to enjoy voice interaction with the official character "Pell-kun" as an application for Koperun, and is the first case in which Tamashiru Custom was used by rinna for the education industry.
summary
Kopernhome is a service offered to families attending preschools and kindergartens that have subscribed to Kopernhome. It is equipped with voice recognition, and by speaking to the child without text, Pell-kun's voice generated by rinna's speech synthesis Koeiromap instantly responds. because of the implementation of the LLM solution Tamashiru Custom, the response is in line with what the person who spoke to the child said, Pell-kun can be a friend to children and a sounding board for parents struggling with childcare. In addition, since Pell-kun can remember conversations as memories, it is possible to have dialogues that are consistent with what has been said in the past. This allows users to enjoy interacting with an AI character with whom they feel a sense of familiarity and attachment.
Features of Pell-kun that can be interacted with at Kopern Home
- Equipped with voice recognition for typing-free interaction
- Pell's statements are read aloud by text-to-speech and text is used to understand his responses with the eyes and ears.
- Personalized experience by storing conversational exchanges as memories
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology and rinna LLM generate highly accurate conversations using proprietary data provided by Kopel
Image of use (video)
https://youtu.be/j9SeERrMzVQ?si=VYIT95nuVcEydp6x
Overview of the Mechanism
Mr. Nobuyuki Ohtsubo, President and Representative Director of Kopel Corporation comments
Based on 31 years of research and practice in early childhood moral education, we are confident that Kopern will play an innovative and effective role in helping children not only absorb encyclopedic knowledge, but also stimulate their curiosity and instill a moral code.
Kopern official website
https://copeln.ai/
Future Development
This is the first time that rinna's LLM solution has been adopted in the education industry. As the use of LLM in the corporate world becomes more and more active, rinna will continue to understand the needs and requirements of each industry, and will continue to shape the use of LLM in a variety of ways.
About rinna Corporation
We are an AI company with the vision of "Co-creation world between humans and AI" (Co-creation world between humans and AI). Our strength lies in the research and development of generative AI models for text, voice, images, and video, as well as data analysis using artificial intelligence. Using various AI technologies that are the result of our research, we work with our partners to develop and provide solutions to various business issues. We also aim to create a rich world in which people and AI can live together through our diverse AI characters, which we have created based on the technology of our flagship AI "Rinna".
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Please note that this press release is jointly issued by rinna Corporation, Adgrove Corporation, and Kopel Corporation, and may be distributed in duplicate.
