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AI Agents
What AI Deployment Incidents Reveal — What to design now to make AI adoption business-ready (a three-part series) Hello! This is the Qualiteg Consulting Team. Even as more companies adopt AI agents, the difficulty of moving from the "trying it out" stage to the "running it in the
LLM Security
Hello! This is the Qualiteg Research Team. Automatic detection of personally identifiable information (PII) can be framed as the problem of extracting specific expressions from text and determining which type of PII each one represents. As the range of PII types to detect grows — phone numbers, personal names, account numbers,
LLM
Introduction This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the performance of Japanese-capable LLMs, based on benchmark data from Nejumi Leaderboard 4 (March 6, 2026 edition). Last time, we published our analysis report on the December 18, 2025 edition, and in roughly three months the landscape has shifted dramatically once again.
News
Hello! We are pleased to announce that the April 2026 issue of Nikkei Trendy(on sale March 4, 2026; print magazine) features our enterprise-grade integrated AI platform "Bestllam". Nikkei Trendy is available at bookstores and convenience stores across Japan. If you come across a copy, we hope you
Generative AI Frontlines
Hello! Greetings from the Qualiteg consulting team! As of 2026, we believe coding is one of the biggest use cases for LLMs. Indeed, Menlo Ventures' research positions coding as a flagship use case for enterprise AI. Having recognized this, AI platform providers have been launching their own AI coding
LLM
Hello! Welcome to a special extra installment of our LLM Inference Infrastructure Provisioning Course! Part 3, "Estimating Inference-Time Memory Consumption for Your Model", we introduced the two major consumers of GPU memory, the model footprint and the KV cache, and explained how to calculate the KV cache size
Python
Hello! This is the Qualiteg product development team! While building a PII (personally identifiable information) detection demo app, we were implementing a feature that highlights the positions of detected entities. The stack is Python (FastAPI) on the backend and JavaScript on the frontend. One day, when we used the following
AI-Business
Hello! Between 2025 and 2026, AI-related investment in Japan has been moving fast. Domestic LLM development, a data center construction boom, expanding government support programs. The sense of urgency—"Japan cannot afford to fall behind in AI"—shows up clearly in the numbers. This momentum is welcome, and
IT & AI Technology
Hello! In this fifth installment of the series, we cover "Browser Configuration and Authentication." In the previous installment (Part 4), we explained how joining the proxy server to the domain makes it possible to reliably identify who accessed ChatGPT or Claude. You should now have a good grasp
AI Mathematics
Hello! "Apparently this puzzle appears in AI textbooks." The sliding puzzle you played with as a kid. Actually, it is plenty of fun for adults too. You know the one—you click numbered tiles around until they line up. Did you know this simple puzzle was one of
IT & AI Technology
Hello! This is the Qualiteg product development team! "We implemented optimistic locking, but we're still getting conflict errors..." This actually happened to us. In this article, we explain the difference between optimistic and pessimistic locking through a real incident we ran into. Rather than abstract explanations,
LLM Security
Hello! Now that generative AI services like ChatGPT and Claude are making their way into everyday work, "the risk of sending confidential information to AI" has emerged as a new security challenge. As we grappled with this challenge, we found ourselves looking back at how enterprise security architecture
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Learning from IT History
Hello. —— From SOA in 2003 to AI in 2026 —— This article looks back at past technology trends and reflects on the lessons we can draw from them. History always teaches us that what seems obvious in hindsight was invisible at the time. And what we believe to be "right&
Daily Dev Tips
Hello! This is the Qualiteg Product Development team! Today we would like to share a case of a GCC internal compiler error (Segmentation fault) that occurred while building Python from source in a Docker environment. At first glance it looks like "insufficient resources" or a "Docker-specific issue,
AI-Business
Hello! This is Qualiteg Consulting! In Part 1, we covered the basic structure of subscription businesses and the revolutionary concepts of LTV and unit economics. Do you remember the golden rule, "LTV > 3 × CAC"? The Complete Guide to Subscription Business, Part 1: Never Get Lost in "
Daily Dev Tips
Hello! While implementing multi-turn image editing with Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro), we ran into a troublesome problem: it worked sometimes and failed other times. In this article, we share the symptoms, the investigation process, and the solution. The Symptoms Environment Google GenAI SDK library (pip): google-genai 1.