Toyota Connected Creates Chatbot That’s Educational, Intuitive and Fun to Interact With

Recently, Toyota Connected North America’s (TCNA) implementation in a marketing-related campaign alongside Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) and marketing agency Saatchi & Saatchi has proven that a chatbot with the assistance of an LLM can make a significant, positive impact.
Using Stable Diffusion and Generative AI for Lexus brand marketing at the 2023 New York International Auto Show

Text-to-multimedia Generative AI (artificial intelligence) models have gained tremendous popularity since 2022 as technical advances greatly enhanced the fidelity of art that AI systems could create.
Using Large Language Models and Generative AI to Build a Digital Owner’s Manual

With the recent advancements in the state-of-the-art in natural language processing (NLP), we can do so much more to build an AI-powered voice interface that may be used for various applications, such as for assisting Toyota and Lexus owners.
How Toyota Connected Built Stability into Its Drivelink Telematics Services Platform and Software

Redundancy is perhaps technology’s greatest friend.
Toyota Connected’s Drivelink: The Inner Workings of a Telematics Platform

In the summer of 2019, Toyota Connected launched Drivelink to maintain the customer-to-automaker services such as Automatic Collision Notification, Emergency Assistance, Stolen Vehicle Locator, Roadside Assistance, and Hands-Free Destination Assist.
Living on the Edge, Dreaming on a Cloud, and the Big Idea of Big Data: How Toyota Connected is using Data to Make Smarter Cars

In many cases, Toyota Connected is Toyota’s first stop for anonymized macro trends – Big Data – before those trends can be turned into technology.
Power of Patents: Toyota Connected’s Culture of Creating Meaningful Change

Cars are connected with sensors that better help engineers determine what customers actually use. It’s all fundamentally changing how we use cars.
Simulating Spot Instance Termination to Test AWS Node Termination Handler

Spot instances are becoming a popular way to achieve large, 70%+ cost savings on the cloud, but it can be difficult to ensure your Kubernetes workloads continue working correctly when spot instances are reclaimed. For example, what happens when a spot instance is reclaimed but there is no more capacity available in the cluster? Fortunately, […]
Productionizing Machine Learning Pipelines

Best Practices Learnt in Productionizing Machine Learning Models NewVantage survey shows that 77% of businesses report that “business adoption” of big data and AI initiatives continues to represent a big challenge for business, deriving business values from data science and creating better customer experiences at scale remain elusive. Why is that? Because only through production […]
OBHIVE: Deep Dive into our On-Demand Ride-Sharing Algorithm

We developed an algorithm, OBHIVE, to address the ride-sharing vacuum in Japan to aid an aging suburban population in navigating the city.