SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence lab under LG Group, unveiled the second generation of its giant, multimodal AI model Wednesday, accelerating its efforts to become a force to be reckoned with in the increasingly competitive global AI race. The EXAONE 2.0 operates faster and more efficiently and saves [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. tech giant Google has seen great potential for artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in South Korea, as it has chosen Korean as its priority service language besides English for its AI-based chatbot, Bard, a senior company official said Thursday. “With Bard launched in Korean in 2023, this is one [...]
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 [...]
LONDON and NEW YORK, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Quantexa, a global leader in Decision Intelligence (DI) solutions for the public and private sectors, announced today that it will invest an additional £125M in the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry over the next three years to help clients advance the use of AI to protect, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a higher-accuracy voice analysis model aimed at curbing rampant voice phishing scams and other voice-based crimes and plans to share the technology with foreign investigative bodies, a senior interior ministry official said Thursday. South Korea sees more than 20,000 cases of voice phishing scams every [...]
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 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Metro, the operator of the subway service in Seoul, said Tuesday it will develop a real-time monitoring system that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assess the congestion levels of subway stations. The project will involve employing AI to analyze the CCTV data organized by congestion levels. In [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military is developing a training system capable of simulating air-to-air combat against artificial intelligence (AI) enemy aircraft. The Air Force said Tuesday it has signed a contract with Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI), the country’s sole aircraft manufacturer, for the development of an AI-based simulated aircraft training system [...]
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR), today announced Genesis, a new initiative that aims to deliver generative AI across its digital twin platform for customers looking to bolster the efficiency and profitability of their property portfolios worldwide. Genesis combines Matterport’s stable of deep learning and computer vision innovations including Cortex AI and Property [...]