Panasonic's PR announcement
I admit that I was mildly disappointed with Hara's pseudo vague announcement earlier today. That was until I searched for a #Panasonic update including #Jasmy.
Yes, a major new announcement was published today, 31 August 2026, by Panasonic Advanced Technology. Importantly, the release was issued under Panasonic Advanced Technology’s official PR Times account, not merely by Jasmy or a crypto-news outlet.
The announcement confirms:
A service called Smart Render by JANCTION is being prepared for launch.
It combines Jasmy Lab’s distributed GPU infrastructure, the Jasmy Platform and PDL, and Panasonic Advanced Technology’s systems expertise.
Internal testing reportedly rendered a demanding Blender animation 16.7 times faster, reducing processing time from about four hours and ten minutes to 15 minutes.
This is explicitly described as the second phase of the Jasmy–Panasonic collaboration, moving beyond platform development into a practical commercial service.
Free trials and real-project testing with production companies, advertising firms, educational institutions and research organisations are planned.
Future expansion could include AI inference, video processing, upscaling and audio processing.
Panasonic Advanced Technology is a Panasonic Holdings affiliated company. It does not, however, state that JASMY tokens will be used (yet); initially, customers are expected to pay through yen-denominated prepaid credits.
This is genuine, new and considerably more substantive than another general partnership update and far more impressive as it has come from Panasonic’s PR team.
Comments