Tokyo, JapanFounded 201880+ employeesKDDI subsidiaryAI · Japanese LLMs
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62/ 100
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ELYZA is Japan's leading domestic-language LLM lab — the KDDI subsidiary anchors a research bench that drove the Llama-2 Japanese fine-tunes ELYZA released in 2024. 80+ research engineers concentrated in Tokyo. Senior bench drawn from University of Tokyo Matsuo Lab.
Hiring Velocity64
Compensation68
Retention72
Mission Alignment70
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Hiring Intelligence
ELYZA by the numbers.
Open roles
32
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Hiring velocity · YoY
+62%
Net-new AI hires (12-month)
Funding stage
KDDI subsidiary
AI · Japanese LLMs
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Total comp · USD · annual
Senior ML Engineer
JPY 14MtoJPY 24M
Research Scientist
JPY 16MtoJPY 28M
Leadership
Who runs talent at ELYZA.
Yuya Sone
CEO
Yutaka Matsuo
Co-founder
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