SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK C&C Co., an IT service unit of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said Thursday it had signed a business agreement with Microsoft Korea Co. to launch into the global digital healthcare solution market as well as to expand its industry ecosystem. Under terms of the agreement, SK C&C’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of South Korea’s tech giant Kakao Corp., has announced that it participated in the creation of the cover of the February edition of Fortune Korea in collaboration with local firm VAIV Company Inc. VAIV Company extracted a total of 56 associated words [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Tuesday it developed a new cell tower safety inspection system using drones and image analysis artificial intelligence (AI). The newly-developed image analysis AI model checks the status of nuts and bolts by analyzing images taken by drones. Cell towers with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hybe Co., the Korean entertainment agency behind supergroup BTS, said Tuesday it has invested 45 billion won (US$36.5 million) to acquire 56.1 percent of stake in Supertone, an artificial intelligence (AI) sound startup. Hybe first acquired a 18.2 percent stake in Supertone in 2021 and made an additional investment [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — An artificial intelligence (AI)-based pet health management platform developed by a South Korean startup will be used for non-face-to-face diagnosis in the U.S. AI FOR PET, the operator of the pet health management application TTcare, said Wednesday it will provide an AI-based pet medical environment in collaboration with American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean IT firm ESTsoft Corp. said Monday it will develop a bilingual artificial intelligence (AI) lecturer that can speak in both Korean and English in collaboration with YBM, a local language education company. The AI lecturer is a virtual human version of YBM’s English lecturer Park Hye-won. ESTsoft [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ICT ministry said Thursday that a joint research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul National University and Stanford University in the U.S. had succeeded in developing an intelligent electronic skin. The types of electronic skin developed so far are inconvenient since they are large [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s ICT ministry has embarked on a project to recruit experts and conduct a technological analysis, eyeing the spillover effect caused by ChatGPT, a general-purpose chatbot prototype developed by U.S. research lab OpenAI. The ministry has reportedly been working with artificial intelligence (AI) experts to study the technological and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education on Monday said it has signed an agreement with eight companies and agencies including Naver Corp. and Google Korea to develop an artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning platform. The Seoul education office plans to develop and transition newSSEM, a remote classroom platform, into an [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists have discovered a way to predict the antibiotic functionality of peptides using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. A joint research team from the National Institute of Biological Resources and Dongguk University announced that it had developed a deep learning-based peptide detection model that can predict antibiotic functionality [...]