Glance AI brings the Future of Commerce to Japan

Tokyo, 04 August 2025: Glance, a consumer technology company backed by Google, today announced the launch of its flagship AI Commerce platform, Glance AI, in Japan through a partnership with leading consumer electronics company Sharp Corporation. 

Unveiled globally in May, Glance AI is an inspiration-led commerce platform that blends generative AI with immersive visual intelligence to redefine how users shop on their smartphones. It’s debut in Japan marks a major global milestone in the evolution of AI commerce, bringing intelligent and hyper-personalised shopping to one of the world’s most technologically advanced and mobile-centric markets. 

Glance AI is now available on both variants of Sharp’s newly launched flagship smartphone, the AQUOS R10 SH-M31, introducing Japanese users to a radically new way of discovering products —seamlessly integrated into their mobile experience." 

Mansi Jain, SVP & GM, Glance AI, said, “The launch of Glance AI in Japan is a defining moment for the future of AI commerce. Japan’s mobile-first users and appetite for innovation make it an ideal market for this next-gen experience. With Sharp’s premium devices and Glance’s AI capabilities, we’re delivering our most advanced, personal, and visually intelligent commerce experience to everyday consumers. We are starting with fashion and will expand to categories that resonate deeply with Japanese consumers.” 

Yuki Nakagawa, General Manager of Sharp Corporation's Communications Business Division, said, “Our partnership with Glance AI will usher in a whole new era of deeply personalized shopping. We see Glance AI not just as a feature, but as an attractive mobile UX that will differentiate Sharp's devices in a competitive market and create a future.” 

Glance AI transforms how users engage with shopping. Instead of browsing endless product listings, users can simply upload a selfie or even select a photo from their gallery to see themselves styled in AI-generated fashion looks curated to their taste and personality.  

Glance AI is built on a powerful, proprietary three-layered tech stack that transforms how people experience shopping. Its Commerce Intelligence Model taps into decades of global retail data to understand evolving trends, cultures, and consumer behaviour. The GenAI Experience Model generates hyper-realistic fashion visualizations, personalized to individual features like body type, skin tone, and style preferences. Lastly, its Transaction Journey Model anticipates user intent, instantly matching each look with the best product options across millions of global catalogues. 

By integrating with cutting-edge platforms like Google Gemini and Imagen on Vertex AI, Glance AI delivers seamless, personalized fashion experiences that feel intuitive, effortless, in near real time.  

Entirely opt-in and intuitively designed, Glance AI enables users to explore looks, receive recommendations, and shop instantly through a network of over 400 leading global brands and retailers – all in a single tap. 

While Glance AI launches in Japan with fashion—one of the most expressive and fast-moving categories for mobile users, it plans to expand rapidly into other lifestyle segments such as beauty, accessories, and travel. It is also looking at expanding into pet care, one of Japan’s most emotionally resonant and fastest growing consumer sectors. With over 20 million pet owners and a booming market for pet-related products and services, the country offers a unique opportunity to innovate in this space.  

The launch of Glance AI marks the first step in a broader strategy to build meaningful consumer experiences in Japan. Glance AI aims to be available on over 10 million devices in Japan by end of this calendar year, driving the next wave of mobile-first, AI-native commerce experience in the region at scale. 

About Glance

Glance is a consumer technology company, creating an industry defining AI commerce platform to help consumers and businesses reimagine shopping using generative AI. Built on a proprietary AI architecture fusing predictive intelligence, neural visualization and real-time orchestration across devices from mobile, TV to apps, Glance AI is leading disruption in commerce. Glance is backed by Google, Jio Platforms, and Mithril Capital, and is an unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi. For more information, visit glance.com and inmobi.com.