WISDOM X

NICT ended the public WISDOM X question-answering trial on September 30, 2026.

Search & answers · 31 Mar 2015 – 30 Sep 2026 · National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

The record

A Japanese web question-answering service that used machine learning to find and present answers from large collections of web pages.

Operator at shutdown: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Company source
Launched: 31 Mar 2015Launch source
Service end: 30 Sep 2026Closure source
Lifespan: 11 years 5 months

Verification notes

Shutdown: NICT’s original notice was published June 23, 2026 and updated at 17:00 on September 30 to state the public trial had ended. The update time is not claimed as the exact technical cutoff. This record covers the complete externally available WISDOM X web trial, including its 2021 BERT upgrade, not the continuing underlying technology used as a component in WISDOM-AR or unrelated NICT services. The service-end hour and time zone are unknown. Seika, Kyoto is the sourced location of the Universal Communication Research Institute that operated the named project; it is a locality marker, not a server location. Closure source
Dates checked: Announced 23 Jun 2026 · Verified 4 Nov 2026
AI functionality: AI functionality source
Location: Japan · Seika. NICT’s original launch names its Universal Communication Research Institute as developer; its original locations page places that institute in Seika, Kyoto. GeoNames lists the Seika populated-place coordinate, rounded to two decimals. Location source · Coordinate source