SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is accelerating efforts to cultivate the artificial intelligence (AI) chip area amid stiffer global competition in generative AI resulting from ChatGPT fever. It’s estimated that the operating costs of ChatGPT, which uses about 10,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), are astronomical. Against this backdrop, AI chip development [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Brain, an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of South Korea’s tech giant Kakao Corp., said Tuesday that it presented a text-based motion creation model that it developed jointly with a research team from Korea University at a global AI conference. The new model, dubbed FLAME, can create natural motions [...]
DAEJEON, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The University of Science and Technology said Thursday that its two PhD students have developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based CCTV technology that can sense and judge a variety of complex abnormal situations. The technology passed the Korea Internet and Security Agency’s seven intelligent CCTV certification categories, including loitering, intrusion, falling, [...]
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 [...]