Message from the CEO

Why I Founded the Company

Looking back on my life, if there’s one thing I’m proud of, it’s quitting shogi * programming.

*Japanese Chess

It took 10 years to develop Ponanza. In the end, it defeated the reigning Shogi Meijin. At 22, having repeated a year at university and lost my way in life, I had climbed one peak—starting from touch-typing all the way to the top.

But reaching the summit and staying there are not the same.

To return that blessing to the world, I had to descend the mountain again.

What hurt most was watching the wings of talent fade away. Engineers’ prime is brief. It felt like watching a hawk trapped in a cage.

What was needed was sky. Impossibly vast challenges. That became my role.

Autonomous driving is the most expansive sky imaginable. If we succeed, it becomes a business. If we fail, it simply doesn’t work. Risk distilled entirely into technology—the ultimate challenge.

The history of AI is a story of complex structures converging toward simple learning. Shogi, Go, image recognition, language—autonomous driving is no exception.

That’s why Turing chose End-to-End from Day 1. There was heavy criticism. But the world is now converging to the same conclusion.

Turing’s mission is: We Overtake Tesla. Stare directly at an overwhelming presence. Respect it. Then surpass it. We chose this battlefield to compete with the world head-on from Japan.

The sky is boundless.

Let your wings take flight here.