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Hitachi and Google Cloud Expand Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Real-world Deployment of Physical AI Through FDE and Advanced Cybersecurity Solutions<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-08 20:20:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.businesswire.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n SANTA CLARA, Calif. & TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501, “Hitachi”) today announced the expansion of its strategic alliance*1 with Google Cloud to support customers by accelerating the real-world deployment of physical AI and cybersecurity solutions to protect against AI generated threats. Garnering increasing attention, physical AI is a technology that connects AI-driven analysis and decision-making\u2014derived from frontline data\u2014to concrete actions such as autonomous control and operation of various devices and equipment. Continuously repeating this cycle enables optimal AI decision-making and execution tailored to each specific situation. Through the real-world deployment of physical AI, Hitachi is driving the transformation of social infrastructure.Combining Hitachi\u2019s deep domain knowledge, GlobalLogic\u2019s engineering strength, and Google Cloud\u2019s advanced AI and engineering resources represents an innovative approach to accelerating AI transformation in real-world environments.Share
\nTo realize this critical mission, through the strategic alliance, Hitachi will establish and globally deploy Hitachi’s Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) model that leverages its strengths in IT, OT, and products cultivated through Lumada, together with Google Cloud\u2019s advanced AI.<\/p>\n

FDEs are specialists that embed directly with customers, providing end-to-end support. Their work can include everything from identifying management challenges, to early validation of value through building proof-of-concepts (PoCs), to agile implementation to helping deploy projects into operations. Hitachi\u2019s DNA includes a long history of practicing \u201con-site-oriented engineering,\u201d working closely with customers to identify and solve challenges together, from discovery through resolution\u2014an approach with strong similarities to the FDE model. Hitachi\u2019s consultants and AI Transformation (AX) experts with deep expertise across a wide range of industries, together with Hitachi\u2019s U.S. subsidiary GlobalLogic\u2019s AI-native software engineers, will collaborate with Google Cloud\u2019s leading engineers to support customers.<\/p>\n

The teams will work closely with Hitachi\u2019s Frontier AI Deployment Center to further enhance HMAX by Hitachi, a next-generation suite of AI-powered solutions that helps drive social infrastructure innovation, by leveraging Gemini Enterprise, an advanced agentic platform that brings the best of Google AI to employees. Leveraging the enhanced HMAX as a core platform, the two companies will help frontline workers through the autonomous execution of complex operations. Furthermore, a data platform that allows domain knowledge gained from FDE activities to be reused as assets will enable Hitachi to deliver value to a wide range of customers at scale.<\/p>\n

In the field of physical AI, where AI directly connects with the real world, more robust security than ever before is essential. AI is also changing the cybersecurity landscape. Adversaries are actively leveraging AI models to accelerate vulnerability discovery and automate exploit generation at an unprecedented scale. In fact, research from Mandiant M-Trends 2026*2 by Google Cloud reveals that AI advancements have compressed cyberattack timelines significantly. To mitigate these risks, Hitachi\u2019s Cyber Center of Excellence will partner with Google Cloud to deliver Google Cloud Security, including its Google AI Threat Defense*3 platform alongside Hitachi\u2019s mission-critical domain knowledge to support customer security operations.<\/p>\n

This collaboration aims to securely scale physical AI value creation on a global level.<\/p>\n

Background<\/p>\n

Since forming their alliance in May 2024, the two companies have advanced initiatives to create value through AI. As part of Hitachi\u2019s \u201cCustomer Zero\u201d approach, the company conducted a technical validation using Gemini Enterprise for maintenance and inspection work at Hitachi Power Solutions Co., Ltd., which serves the power and industrial domains. The validation confirmed the potential to improve quality and efficiency*4, while also demonstrating Gemini Enterprise\u2019s strong applicability to OT domains such as manufacturing and infrastructure. The trial also highlighted a shared understanding of the importance of specialists who, by taking a field-oriented, hands-on approach, can identify on-site constraints and, in an agile manner, create value and implement solutions to safely integrate advanced AI with operational equipment, business systems, and the tacit knowledge of experienced workers.<\/p>\n

Hitachi is now accelerating efforts to enhance AI literacy by introducing Gemini Enterprise within its Digital Systems & Services Sector, which leads AX, and by advancing numerous PoC projects where frontline employees actively utilize AI.<\/p>\n

Based on these proven results across the Hitachi Group, Google Cloud and Hitachi will expand their strategic alliance to safely scale the deployment of physical AI in customer production environments.<\/p>\n

New Initiatives under the Strategic Alliance<\/p>\n

1. Accelerating Physical AI Deployment through the Enhancement of FDEs Capabilities<\/p>\n

Working closely with top engineers from Google Cloud, Hitachi\u2019s consultants and AX experts, together with GlobalLogic\u2019s AI-native software engineers, will further accelerate the development of Hitachi\u2019s FDE capabilities. To leverage continuously evolving AI technologies in business and operational environments, the companies will use an agile approach that enables rapid validation and adaptation to change. Unlike conventional system integration approaches that build systems based on predefined customer requirements, this FDE model practiced by these teams will present and validate their effectiveness in actual operations. This approach enables customers to visualize return on investment in advance, minimize risks, and create business value through AI at high speed.<\/p>\n

2. Advancing Solutions to Frontline Challenges through HMAX Enhancement<\/p>\n

Both companies will enhance HMAX by integrating Gemini Enterprise\u2019s agentic AI and multimodal Gemini models. Capable of simultaneously processing and understanding diverse data such as on-site camera footage and vast sensor data, Gemini Enterprise complements physical AI systems that autonomously operate by capturing real-world conditions. Leveraging these technological characteristics and incorporating use cases, such as maintenance and inspection using image comparison, Hitachi will promote autonomous operations in complex manufacturing and social infrastructure environments. To realize this, Hitachi will integrate its proprietary domain knowledge with Google Cloud\u2019s agent-ready data technologies into Hitachi\u2019s data platform. By doing so, Hitachi aims to create scalable business outcomes that go beyond the provision of AI services and establish new business models in the infrastructure sector.<\/p>\n

3. Next Generation Cybersecurity for AI Era Threats<\/p>\n

In response to cybersecurity threats, the two companies will jointly deliver autonomous next generation security solutions. These solutions leverage Google Cloud Security technologies and services, including Wiz for automated risk reduction and comprehensive visibility into cloud and AI risks and Mandiant Consulting for cyber threat expertise, alongside Hitachi\u2019s experience in mission-critical system integration in industries such as railways, energy, and finance, as well as its global OT knowledge. Its effectiveness has already been demonstrated through a \u201cCustomer Zero\u201d approach, including the adoption of Google Security Operations across Hitachi Group companies globally. Both Google Cloud and Hitachi will continue efforts to expand proposals to customers going forward.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, the practical expertise and AI deployment technologies developed on the frontlines will be folded into the Frontier AI Deployment Center\u2019s resources. By sharing these advanced insights widely among system engineers in Japan, Hitachi will strengthen FDEs across the Hitachi Group. These efforts will enable Hitachi to accelerate the FDE model rollout and advance AI on a global scale.<\/p>\n

Comment from Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud<\/p>\n

\u201cCombining Hitachi\u2019s deep domain knowledge, GlobalLogic\u2019s engineering strength, and Google Cloud\u2019s advanced AI and engineering resources represents an innovative approach to accelerating AI transformation in real-world environments. This partnership will better empower customers to implement AI agents and create value faster. In addition, by integrating Google Cloud Security\u2019s advanced solutions with Hitachi\u2019s expertise in mission-critical domains, we will help enable our customers to innovate within a secure, trusted environment for the AI era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comment from Jun Abe, Executive Vice President, Head of Digital Systems & Services Sector, Hitachi<\/p>\n

\u201cHitachi has been proactively promoting the introduction and practical use of Gemini Enterprise at scale as Customer Zero, and has experienced significant improvements in operational efficiency and productivity as a result. The expansion of this strategic alliance is intended to enable both companies to take on more complex challenges, based on the enhanced development of FDE capabilities. By combining the world\u2019s most advanced AI implementation approaches developed by Google Cloud with Hitachi\u2019s co-creation approach and GlobalLogic\u2019s outstanding digital engineering capabilities, we aim to create value from physical AI in customers\u2019 business environments. Furthermore, to deliver this value safely, we will integrate Hitachi\u2019s expertise in building mission-critical systems with Google Cloud Security\u2019s advanced technology and services, protect social infrastructure from threats in the AI era, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.\u201d<\/p>\n

About HMAX & Lumada<\/p>\n

Trademark Notice: All trademarks and product names are the property of their respective owners.<\/p>\n

About Hitachi, Ltd.<\/p>\n

Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi aims to be a global leader in continuously transforming social infrastructure through digital, contributing to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance.<\/p>\n

Hitachi operates worldwide across four sectors \u2013 Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries \u2013 as well as a Strategic SIB Business Unit focused on new growth areas. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi creates value by combining data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges.<\/p>\n

Revenues for FY2025 (ended March 31, 2026) totaled 10,586.7 billion yen, with 606 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 290,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.<\/p>\n

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