Ex-Tenstorrent Execs Start Cloud Provider, AI Lab in Japan

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Apr. 02, 2026 –

By Sally Ward-Foxton, EETimes

AI& (“AI And”), a new vertically-integrated Japanese AI company from former Tenstorrent and Lenovo executives David Bennett and Shimpei Hara, has raised $50 million in seed funding and $2 billion in infrastructure capital.

AI& wants to tackle every part of the AI stack from the data center upwards, including building out Japanese data center infrastructure as well as developing orchestration/cluster management software for heterogeneous data centers, plus AI models, agents, and applications.  

At GTC 2026 last week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang postulated that all employees of all companies will be running 100 AI agents each in the near future. If scaled to Japan’s population, with each agent using one million tokens per day, total power demand would reach a terawatt, Shimpei Hara, AI& president and cofounder, told EE Times.

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