SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Visual storytelling skills are essential to become a professional webtoon artist, but advancing artificial intelligence (AI) technology is now capable of creating images and text, and challenging the industry in a fundamental way. Webtoons, a type of digital comics read on smartphones, tablets and PCs, have emerged as a [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) arm of tech giant Kakao Corp., announced on Monday the release of Karlo 2.0, a super-giant AI image-generating model that instantly creates vivid images. Karlo 2.0 is a large-scale AI that has been trained on a dataset comprising more than 300 million pages [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Genie Music, a leading Seoul-based music streaming service, unveiled the country’s first artificial intelligence (AI)-based music arrangement service Wednesday along with a domestic tech startup. The subsidiary of domestic telecom giant KT Corp. and Juice, an AI-based startup specializing in the field of music, launched a beta version of [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Artificial intelligence (AI) models, which utilize machine-learned photos of K-pop girl group members collected illicitly, are being extensively distributed online. CivitAI, a platform for sharing generative AI models, hosts numerous AI datasets derived from learned photos of popular K-pop girl groups such as Le Sserafim. The published files consist [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. is currently engaged in a tense battle with SK Telecom Co., the country’s leading wireless carrier, over the recruitment of skilled employees in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Naver Cloud, a cloud computing solutions unit under Naver, recently presented evidence to [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said Friday that he is ready to invest in promising startups in South Korea, where its global sensation chatbot ChatGPT has been rapidly and widely used. “We love to support people building on our platform. Some of our teams here today [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Leave Chat Room Quietly” function in KakaoTalk, South Korea’s top mobile messenger, has gained immense popularity since its launch a month ago. According to Kakao Corp., the operator of KakaoTalk, the new function was activated by around 2 million users from May 10-31, after it was added to [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The role of “prompt engineers,” responsible for optimizing the performance of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, is emerging as a promising profession, but a debate is intensifying regarding its future. Kang Soo-jin, a linguistics PhD, recently secured a position as a prompt engineer at the South Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. and Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent said Wednesday they are working together to develop next-generation chips that could potentially power the South Korean tech company’s smart consumer appliances and automotive products. Tenstorrent, founded in 2016, builds computers for artificial intelligence (AI). CEO Jim Keller is a [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean online legal service platform has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-based legal consultation service using ChatGPT. Law&Good Corp. on Sunday unveiled Law&Bot, a free service that utilizes AI to interpret complex legal terms in an easily understandable manner and provide answers to litigation-related questions. Currently, Law&Bot offers [...]