APTO Selected as One of 15 Startups in Qualcomm's 'Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators (QAIPI)'

APTO Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Representative Director: Yoshishige Takashina) is pleased to announce that it has been selected as one of 15 startups deploying AI solutions in the 'Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators (QAIPI) 2026 - APAC' program, which is being implemented by Qualcomm Inc. (Qualcomm) in the Asia-Pacific region.

About 'Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators (QAIPI) 2026 - APAC'

'Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators' is an advanced program aimed at supporting innovators pursuing the development of innovative edge AI solutions across industries in the Asia-Pacific region, and jointly accelerating innovation in cutting-edge edge AI and on-device AI (Device-on AI), led by Qualcomm Inc., a world-leading semiconductor and communication technology company.

Background of APTO's Selection for This Program

Qualcomm Inc. defines the situation in Japan for this program as follows:

'Japan, facing a decrease in the labor population and knowledge gaps due to changes in population dynamics, aims to transform industrial systems, maintain human expertise, and develop AI applications in the real world, exploring the possibilities of physical AI and edge AI.'

APTO has been engaged in the AI development platform business and AI consulting business focused on data.

Since its inception, APTO has fused its unique quality management system with a crowdsourcing mechanism to provide the 'harBest' platform, which can quickly and massively build high-quality data essential for AI model learning, and 'harBest Expert,' which improves data accuracy using expert insights. These have been adopted by numerous AI development companies and research institutions both domestically and internationally.

In this selection, APTO's unique high-quality multimodal dataset development and data operation solution construction technology, as well as its growth potential in the future multimodal AI market, were evaluated.

Future Prospects and Specific Initiatives in the Program

Through its selection for this program, APTO will enjoy early access rights to cutting-edge hardware platforms and AI development toolkits (such as Qualcomm® AI Stack) provided by Qualcomm Inc., as well as technical support from the company's expert technical team.

This will strongly promote the development of next-generation datasets and annotation environments for physical AI and edge AI, which will be increasingly in demand not only in Japan but around the world.

In the future, by strengthening collaboration with Qualcomm Inc.'s global network, APTO will accelerate its expansion not only in the Japanese domestic market but also in the global market, including the Asia-Pacific region.

For details of this program result, please refer to the following

APTO Inc.

We provide AI development support services focused on 'data,' which has the greatest impact on accuracy in any AI development. With services such as the data collection and annotation platform 'harBest,' which utilizes cloud workers, 'harBest Dataset,' which speeds up data preparation that becomes a bottleneck in the initial stage, and 'harBest Expert,' which improves data accuracy using expert insights, we support AI development where data is an issue, and have been highly evaluated by many domestic and international enterprises.

▼ 'harBest' - The World's Fastest Data Collection and Creation Platform

https://harbest.io/

▼ 'harBest' - Data Collection and Creation Point Activity App

https://harbest.site

▼ 'harBest Expert' - Specialized LLM Instruction Data Stock

https://expert.harbest.io/

Company Name: APTO Inc.

Location: 504, Kanda Iwamotochō Plaza Building, 2-4-1 Iwamotochō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Representative: Representative Director Yoshishige Takashina

URL: https://apto.co.jp/

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