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Gov't to purchase 35,000 GPUs within two years: Science minister

South Korea plans to buy more than 35,000 GPUs in two years as part of an initiative to strengthen AI infrastructure, aiming for 50,000 by 2030, while investigating potential cyberattacks by a North Korean hacking group.

2025-08-20

Science Ministry announces five teams to develop Korea’s proprietary AI foundation model

The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Monday it has selected five elite teams to lead the development of Korea’s proprietary foundation model for artificial intelligence (AI).

2025-08-04

AI startup Upstage, Kakao Healthcare to develop LLM service

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage said Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with Kakao's health care unit to jointly develop a digital health care service using a large language model (LLM).

2024-09-04

Upstage raises $72 million to invest in enterprise AI

Korean AI startup Upstage raised $71.7 million in Series B funding from domestic and international investors. It plans to expand its enterprise-specific large language models.

2024-04-16

Law&Company, Upstage to set local precedent with AI legal assistant

The operator behind Korea's largest legal consulting app is teaming up with the local AI firm to develop a legal assistant tailored to the Korean legal sector.

2024-03-12

SK invests $19 million in generative AI startup Upstage

SK Networks invested $19 million in the Korean AI startup Upstage which is focused on large language model and AI chatbot.

2024-01-12

Korean LLM Solar tops ranking of best open source models

Solar, a home grown large language model (LLM), has been recognized as the top open source large-scale AI model by global AI platform Hugging Face, beating well-known competitors such as OpenAI and Mistral AI.

2023-12-15

KT bets big on large-scale AI language models

KT's latest investments and partnerships announced at the helm of newly-appointed CEO Kim Young-shub reflect the company's focus on large-scale artificial intelligence.

2023-09-11

Upstage introduces test version of corporate AI chatbot service

Upstage, a local software start-up, introduced a test version of a corporate artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 language model.

2023-03-20