The chatty digital replica of Kōnosuke Matsushita, who started the electronics giant in 1918, offers an online path to lessons from the man once called the ‘god of management.’ Panasonic, one ...

Japanese electronics company Panasonic has created an AI version of its founder, Kōnosuke Matsushita, who died in 1989, The Japan Times reports.Matsushita was one of the most respected figures in ...

TL;DR: Panasonic, founded by Kōnosuke Matsushita in 1918, collaborated with the University of Tokyo to create an AI replica of Matsushita using 3,000 recordings and writings. This AI serves as a ...

Panasonic thinks it's okay, having just created an AI version of founder Kōnosuke Matsushita, who died in 1989. Masthead image: Matsushita's statue at the Panasonic museum in Osaka.

March 2018 marks 100 years since the foundation of Panasonic. The ideas of the company’s founder, Matsushita Kōnosuke, go far beyond business management to touch on the philosophy of life.

Founder Kōnosuke Matsushita started Panasonic—formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.—in 1918 to make lamp sockets. After World War II, the company expanded into a dizzying array ...

Kōnosuke Matsushita started his business in Japan in 1918, selling duplex lamp sockets before expanding to other products, including a line of bicycle lamps and electric irons. The company he founded, ...

Konosuke Matsushita. Photos: Getty Images. Panasonic, one of the world’s biggest technology manufacturers, was founded in March 1918—that’s 106 years ago—by Kōnosuke Matsushita, in his ...