NTT Data Becomes Sales Agent for US-Based Lazarus AI
NTT Data Corporation has concluded a sales agent agreement with Lazarus AI, which provides multimodal LLM products available in closed network environments, particularly to the life insurance industry, and property insurance industry, and is also a participant in Plug and Play Japan's Summer 2025 InsurTech Batch.
Starting in August 2025, NTT Data will begin providing "Lazarus AI" and construction/implementation support services to the Japanese market. In recent years, the utilization of generative AI requires responses to security and governance issues such as handling highly confidential information and audit/internal control compliance. This partnership will support safe and high-precision generative AI utilization in closed network environments.
By combining NTT Data's GPU infrastructure with "Lazarus AI," customers will be able to handle critical information with generative AI without connecting to the internet. Furthermore, by collaborating with its domestic data centers, NTT Data will respond to all customer needs for generative AI utilization.
NTT Data will support customers' generative AI implementation challenges and contribute to business transformation and operational efficiency improvement by providing full-stack services from infrastructure to applications, consulting, and BPO.
Background
Corporate generative AI implementation can achieve operational efficiency and productivity improvements. Cost reduction becomes possible through automation of document creation, summarization, and customer service, while competitive advantage can be enhanced through advanced analysis and proposals utilizing AI. In response to this, handling highly confidential information and responding to security and governance requirements such as audit compliance and internal control have become important, creating demand for constructing generative AI environments in closed network environments such as on-premises and private clouds.
NTT Data is promoting advanced automation of entire business processes centered on the Smart AI Agent™ concept utilizing generative AI. For office workers, NTT Data provides AI agents specialized in professional fields such as sales and marketing, establishing autonomous task processing environments to address social issues such as labor shortage. Additionally, for customers who wish to use generative AI in their own dedicated environments, NTT Data has begun providing generative AI infrastructure utilizing cutting-edge GPUs, and has been advancing full-stack customer support from infrastructure to applications.
Features of Lazarus AI
1. Provision in Closed Network Environments
Generative AI environments can be constructed in closed network environments not connected to the internet, such as on-premises and private clouds. Therefore, highly confidential information is not transmitted externally, and generative AI can be safely utilized with reliable and robust systems. This enables handling of highly confidential critical corporate information and can expand generative AI use cases.
2. Multimodal LLM Usage Without Tuning
High-precision output for business use can be achieved without implementing tuning through adding learning data in advance or fine-tuning after use. This is because Lazarus AI's multimodal LLM is trained using very clean and large amounts of data. This minimizes the effort and costs involved in implementation and operation, enabling immediate business utilization.
3. Hallucination Reduction Through Proprietary Mechanisms
By adopting an architecture that combines proprietary engines with document management, only reliable information sources are referenced by the generative AI to generate responses. This reduces the risk of misinformation output and enables more precise response results.
Products Available Through This Partnership
Expected Use Cases
- Financial Industry: Compliance checking and risk assessment operations utilizing internal documents such as financial statements
- Manufacturing Industry: Promotion of research and development and technology succession utilizing technical information, patent information, experimental data, etc.
- Energy Industry: Regulatory report generation and tender document comparison/evaluation utilizing regulatory materials and tender documents
- Telecommunications Industry: New service development support and technical document preparation utilizing usage statistics, specification documents, test records, etc.
- Security Field: Strategic planning and risk response plan sophistication utilizing operational records
Norbert Gehrke
