Kakao to launch conversational AI platform for B2C commerce

Kakao to launch conversational AI platform for B2C commerce

South Korean mobile platform giant Kakao Corp. said on Thursday that it will accelerate its artificial intelligence push by launching a conversation...

SK Telecom to launch AI assistants for corporate clients

SK Telecom to launch AI assistants for corporate clients

SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s top mobile carrier, plans to introduce customized services to connect major large language models (LLMs) and cor...

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

Korea’s LG telecom unit unveils AI agent with own technology

LG Uplus Corp., South Korea’s No. 3 mobile carrier, has introduced an artificial intelligence agent platform based on its own ixi AI technolog...

HyperCLOVA X surpasses GPT-4 in Korean AI evaluation

HyperCLOVA X surpasses GPT-4 in Korean AI evaluation

South Korea's Naver Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Naver Corp., announced on Tuesday that its HyperCLOVA X has scored higher than OpenAI and Goog...

Upstage releases Solar API for Free

Upstage releases Solar API for Free

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage announced on Feb. 22 that it released the beta version of its open-source small lan...

Kakao’s multimodal LLM Honeybee: Korea’s answer to Gemini, GPT-4

Kakao’s multimodal LLM Honeybee: Korea’s answer to Gemini, GPT-4

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile platform operator, said on Friday it has developed a multimodal large language model (MLLM) with the lat...

Samsung Galaxy S24 heralds dawning of AI smartphone era

Samsung Galaxy S24 heralds dawning of AI smartphone era

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Samsung Electronics Co. on Wednesday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone Galaxy S24 series, which it calls an “AI...

Upstage installs Solar in KakaoTalk AI services

Upstage installs Solar in KakaoTalk AI services

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) tech startup Upstage announced on Thursday that its small language model (SLM) Specialized and Opti...

ESTsoft launches conversational AI service Alan

ESTsoft launches conversational AI service Alan

South Korea's AI service specialist company ESTsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday that it launched its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) serv...

SK Telecom launches call recording service for iPhone

SK Telecom launches call recording service for iPhone

South Korea’s SK Telecom Co. has rolled out an iPhone app using artificial intelligence (AI) that allows users to record calls on their smartp...

Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver’s 'Cue:' throws down the gauntlet to MS Bing Chat

Naver Corp., South Korea’s dominant web portal operator, on Wednesday launched a beta service of its new generative artificial intelligence te...

GenAI startup Wrtn’s cumulative subscribers exceed 1 million

GenAI startup Wrtn’s cumulative subscribers exceed 1 million

South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies announced on Tuesday that it has surpassed one million cumulative subscribers to its service.Wr...

Doosan Robotics to develop GPT-based collaborative robots

Doosan Robotics to develop GPT-based collaborative robots

Doosan Robotics, a subsidiary of South Korea's Doosan Group specializing in robot solutions, is venturing into the development of collaborative robo...

Hanatour launches real-time travel info-sharing chat app

Hanatour launches real-time travel info-sharing chat app

South Korea's leading travel agency Hanatour Service Inc. has launched the location-based travel-specialized open chat service app called "Hana Open...

AI startup Liner adds GPT service to Samsung Internet Browser

AI startup Liner adds GPT service to Samsung Internet Browser

South Korea’s Liner, an artificial intelligence search platform startup, on Thursday announced the release of Liner Copilot, an extension for ...

Wrtn to offer free access GPT-4 conversation services

Wrtn to offer free access GPT-4 conversation services

South Korean generative AI startup Wrtn Technologies announced on Thursday that it will offer unlimited free access to its conversation feature...

Kakao will launch Korean-specific vertical AI in year's first half

Kakao will launch Korean-specific vertical AI in year's first half

Kakao Corp., South Korea’s platform giant operating the country’s No. 1 chat app KakaoTalk, by the first half of the year will launch an...

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage’s AskUp offers Korea’s first GPT-4-powered chatbot service

Upstage, a South Korean AI tech startup, has unveiled a new version of its generative AI chatbot powered by GPT-4, to become the first to offer Open...

LG Uplus offers foreign language chat service for customers

LG Uplus offers foreign language chat service for customers

LG Uplus Corp., a South Korean telecom operator of LG Group, said on Tuesday that it had launched a foreign language chat service for its customers,...

Blockchain-based messenger 'Block Chat' debuts

Blockchain-based messenger 'Block Chat' debuts

South Korea's Blockchain Labs, which developed the Coov app for electronic certification for vaccination against COVID-19, on Tuesday said it has re...

Kakao to bolster open chat, ad services for growth

Kakao to bolster open chat, ad services for growth

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. on Thursday unveiled plans to bolster its open chat and advertising businesses to a...

Kakao CEO vows messenger app reform as Q1 misses forecasts

 Kakao CEO vows messenger app reform as Q1 misses forecasts

South Korea’s leading online platform operator Kakao Corp. plans to drastically change the way KakaoTalk, the country’s top mobile messe...

DearU: A K-pop fan engagement platform success story

DearU: A K-pop fan engagement platform success story

No company would know better than DearU Inc. that powerful fandom can turn into fast money.The South Korean startup that started as a software devel...

Chat fiction app operator eyes global expansion, webtoon market

Chat fiction app operator eyes global expansion, webtoon market

As smartphones have become essential to everyday life, chat fiction -- storytelling in the form of fictional text messaging -- has become popular am...

Match Group buys Korean video chat startup for $1.73 bn

Match Group buys Korean video chat startup for $1.73 bn

Match Group, the operator of the world’s largest dating app Tinder, has agreed to buy 100% of South Korea’s leading video chat startup...

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