If yes, please describe key research or investment initiatives in the areas selected above (e.g., dedicated safety teams, funding of research programs, contributions to open-source safety tools, publishing research, partnerships and collaborative research initiatives). You may also indicate whether related outputs are publicly shared, shared with partners or within consortia or not publicly disclosed.
Dedicated research organization. Ubie Lab, established in July 2023, advances verification of the underlying technologies and safety of generative AI, covering countermeasures against hallucination, output stability and medical accuracy. It also conducts research on policy developments and makes policy recommendations. Ubie Lab operates under the principle of achieving both innovation and safety. Publicly shared: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000060.000048083.html
Dedicated safety function. Since January 2026 the Trust & Safety Team has carried out cross-product quality management, incident collection and classification, and pre-release review across all products. Risk assessment is performed by specialists independent of the development and business units. Not publicly disclosed as a research output, but described in this report and in the Appendix to the METI/MIC AI Guidelines for Business (Ver. 1.1), Column 11.
Leading a sector-wide safety standard. As leader of the Healthcare Sub-Working Group under the AISI Business Demonstration Working Group, on behalf of The Japan Digital Health Alliance (JaDHA), Ubie led the development of the Guide to Evaluation Perspectives on AI Safety in the Healthcare Sector, published in April 2026 jointly with the Japan AI Safety Institute. It sets out ten evaluation perspectives across five lifecycle phases, covering security, safety, data quality, information integrity, explainability, robustness and verifiability. Publicly shared, free of charge, and published in part in Markdown so that it can be loaded into AI services: https://aisi.go.jp/output/output_information/260402/ Ubie also led the development of the JaDHA Guide to the Utilization of Generative AI for Healthcare Providers, publicly shared at https://jadha.jp/
Data quality and representativeness. We invest continuously in a medical knowledge database built from more than 50,000 medical papers and clinical practice guidelines, covering more than 1,100 disease names, authored in-house by physicians and supervised by more than 50 physicians, with scheduled review and updating against the latest clinical guidelines. The approach and the supervision process are publicly shared: https://ubie.app/about
System performance and outcomes. In the Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate program we conducted performance evaluation using large-scale patient data, covering a different language and clinical-cultural context from our domestic services. Publicly shared: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000175.000048083.html We also measure deployment outcomes at customer medical institutions, and publish them as case studies.
Explainability and transparency. Rather than pursuing post-hoc explanation of model internals, we invest in designs that make the basis of an output inspectable in clinical use: retrieval grounding with source citation, and the safety net structure in which the original text is displayed by default and remains retrievable alongside any AI-generated summary. Publicly described at https://ubie.life/safety
Partnerships. Safety and performance evaluation is conducted with technology partners, including our work with Google Cloud/Gemini, publicly shared on the official Google blog: https://blog.google/intl/ja-jp/company-news/technology/ubie/ We also participate in study groups as a regular member of the AI Governance Association (AIGA), where findings are shared within the consortium.
Disclosure posture. Guides, evaluation perspectives and deployment outcomes are publicly shared. Internal test criteria, prompts, guardrail configurations and specific vulnerability details are not publicly disclosed, since disclosure would reduce their effectiveness or enable exploitation.