Today NEC Corporation announced that it is supporting the Stanford DAWN project, an initiative to simplify the building of AI-powered applications, by providing a cluster of new “SX-Aurora TSUBASA” vector computers for research in the area of Artificial Intelligence. “We are very pleased to support the Stanford DAWN project. We hope to help demonstrate the value of vector computing to the advancement of AI domains,” said Yuichi Nakamura, Vice President, NEC Central Research Laboratories.