SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s sleep technology firms are introducing a range of customized solutions by harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze sleep patterns and provide personalized assessments. Sleep tracking software startup Asleep has created an AI model capable of analyzing sleep stages solely through breathing sounds. It can also identify sleep-related [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest wireless carrier, said Sunday it will invest US$100 million in the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic in a partnership deal to expand its footprint in the AI sector. Anthropic is a San Francisco-based AI safety and research company, with products like the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Group said Thursday it will invest US$50 million in Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor startup Tenstorrent as it seeks to integrate AI into its future mobility solutions. Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Corp. will invest $30 million and $20 million, respectively, in Tenstorrent as [...]
GOYANG, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The artificial intelligence (AI)-based care call service for elderly individuals living alone, offered by the city government of Goyang, just northwest of Seoul, has received praise from its recipients. A public health center in the Deokyang district in April launched the AI-based Clova Care Call service to prevent accidents [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Tuesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with car-sharing and mobility service provider SOCAR Inc. to foster mutual cooperation for mobility service innovation using its hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI) platform, HyperCLOVA X. According to the terms of the MOU, [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co., leading battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. and several other major South Korean companies joined hands with smaller firms to seek ways to maximize the use of artificial intelligence in key industries, the industry ministry said Tuesday. A total of 20 South Korean conglomerates [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top wireless carrier, said Tuesday it has launched a video control solution utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) technology for video recognition to monitor various accidents. Developed in collaboration with local software development company Innodep, the solution utilizes video recognition AI technology to analyze individuals, vehicles, [...]
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 [...]