Sony AI

For 40+ years, building a robot that could rally with an elite human table tennis player at full speed was an unsolved problem. Sony AI's Ace research project set out to change that—and the results are now accepted for publication in @Nature and featured on the cover.

Five years ago we asked: can an AI agent outrace the world's best #GranTurismo drivers? The answer became a @Nature cover, a game feature and a research frontier that's still open. #GTSophy, five years on ↓ bit.ly/4vHyxpF

Catch up: bit.ly/4wh2aOd

June at Sony AI: our robot #Ace beat seven ranked pro table tennis players under official rules, and the #robotics press is taking note. 🏓 We brought six papers to #CVPR 2026 in Denver. Alice Xiang made the case for data rights in @TIME. Plus our work at #FAccT 2026.

Honored to be named an Honorable Mention in @FastCompany's 2026 World Changing Ideas Awards for our Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (#FHIBE), our consensually collected dataset for evaluating fairness in AI. 🌎 fastcompany.com #FCWorldChangingIdeas

Since our @Nature paper, #Ace won against seven pro table tennis players, including two-time Olympic silver medalist Miu Hirano, and world No. 26 @KiharaMiyuu. Learn how improvements across #RL, hardware, #perception, and more helped close the gap: bit.ly/440oyPM

Sony AI is presenting 10 papers at #CVPR2026 in Denver, covering generative modeling, face aging, video-to-audio synthesis, 3D scene understanding, and evolving-world perception. 👉 bit.ly/4obvwuD

#VidCamEdit: edit your video's camera path after capture. One input video. New viewpoint. Scene stays coherent. 👉 Explore the research: bit.ly/4tTmPpX 👉 Read the full blog post: bit.ly/3PpkNju

Whisper #hallucinations often escape detection. "Listen Like a Teacher" targets them at the source with adaptive encoding + knowledge distillation. 👉 Research: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.14219 ➡️Blog: ai.sony/blog/sony-ais-…

Sony AI has released #Woosh, a sound effect foundation model built for game and film sound designers. We went behind the scenes with the team to explore how it was built. Read the full interview on the Sony AI blog: bit.ly/4wzj4Zk #SonyAI #SoundDesign #SoundEffects

#SPARC: a single racing policy that holds up across 100+ unseen vehicles — no vehicle-specific tuning needed. 👉 Learn more: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.09737

👉 bit.ly/4wjSmE8 #SonyAI #AIGovernance #AIEthics

@alicexiang, Global Head of AI Governance at Sony and Lead Research Scientist @SonyAI_global, writes in @TIME: data nihilism is driving one of the greatest wealth transfers in history. The solution is ethical innovation built on consent and shared value.

Each addresses a different gap between what #audio AI systems produce and what they actually understand. 👉 Learn more: bit.ly/4dsZPsX

#ICASSP2026 Sony AI is presenting 11 papers in Barcelona this May, covering #music understanding, #generativeaudio, audio-visual alignment, and #dataquality.

Lorenzo Servadei, Head of AI for Chip Design at Sony AI, speaks with Silicon Semiconductor on AI-powered EDA, #GENIE-ASI for analog subcircuit identification, and #Schemato for human-readable schematics. Read the interview: siliconsemiconductor.net/magazine/686 #SonyAI #ChipDesign

A defining month for Sony AI: Project #Ace reached the cover of @Nature, a new framework on #AI companionship, a full slate at #ICLR 2026, and a feature on the future of #chip design. 🔗Read the April Month in Review: bit.ly/3OEuutX

Watch the full Project Ace short film, dive into research and team interviews at: ace.ai.sony #SonyAI #PhysicalAI #Robotics #TableTennis #AIResearch

Second: safety. From day one, the team worked with safety professionals through a formal certification process. Researchers started in helmets, pads, and glasses. The system is now operating at competition speed in direct physical interaction with humans—a first.

AI has largely existed in virtual spaces. Ace was built to change that—and today, that research was published in @Nature. Michael Spranger, President of Sony AI, explains what it actually required.