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Toyota Motor Corporation is using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to build a system of generative artificial intelligence agents that will enable it to develop new vehicle models faster.
The agents in the O-Beya system use OpenAI’s multimodal GPT-4o large language to answer questions on a variety of topics using information sourced from Toyota’s design data, including past engineering design reports, regulatory information and documents handwritten by veteran engineers. For example, an engine agent can answer questions related to engine output while a regulatory agent provides answers on limits to emissions.
Toyota will add technical drawings and other non-text information to the data set soon.
“At Toyota, we are shifting from being a car company to a mobility company,” said Kenji Onishi, an automotive engineer and 18-year Toyota veteran who is leading the generative AI project. “The biggest challenge is the number of items to be developed is increasing rapidly.”
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