Korea’s Trillion-Dollar Sovereign AI Investment
South Korea's government launched the 'Independent AI Foundation Model' project in June 2025, a tournament-style initiative to develop a domestic frontier AI model, with five consortiums selected in A…
South Korea's government launched the 'Independent AI Foundation Model' project in June 2025, a tournament-style initiative to develop a domestic frontier AI model, with five consortiums selected in A…
NC AI will showcase its physical AI technology at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, operating a joint pavilion for the Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium alongside MegazoneCloud, Upstage, FuriosaAI, and Uracle. The e…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has narrowed its state-backed project to develop a domestic AI foundation model to three teams led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom, and Upstage, eliminating sta…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) eliminated Motif Technologies from its sovereign AI competition, 'Dokpamo', after an evaluation round from August 8 to 11, leaving LG AI Research, SK T…
South Korea's NC AI completed development of VARCO 3D 2.0, a next-generation 3D generative model that scored 0.449 on the Uni3D shape-similarity metric, outperforming open-source competitors Trellis2,…
NC AI, a Korean AI company spun off from NCSoft, released VARCO 3D 2.0, a next-generation 3D asset generation model that achieved top benchmark scores, including a 40.8% improvement on the Uni3D metri…
South Korean tech firms Naver Cloud and NC AI are moving beyond government-led foundation model competitions to target the defense AI market, where security and data sovereignty are critical. Naver Cl…
NC AI announced Thursday it has secured a contract with Hanwha Ocean to develop an AI-powered autonomous welding system for shipyards, combining computer vision and robotic control to automate complex…