Line to Expand AI Workforce to 200 Employees by Next Year

AI-related Teams Unified into a Single Organization
Accelerating the 'Research-Development-Commercialization' Cycle

[Asia Economy Reporter Jin-gyu Lee] Naver's Japanese subsidiary LINE will expand its artificial intelligence (AI) workforce to about 200 employees by next year.

LINE announced on the 2nd that it will reorganize its internal teams related to AI to accelerate AI technology development and business growth, and expand its AI workforce to around 200 employees by next year.

LINE will integrate teams responsible for ▲data-driven development ▲data analysis ▲machine learning ▲AI technology development and basic research into a single organization. By strengthening collaboration among these teams, it aims to speed up the 'research-development-commercialization' cycle and promote early commercialization of AI technologies, including the 'LINE Brain' project, which is conducting pilot experiments with various partners.

Additionally, LINE plans to focus on hiring AI talent such as machine learning engineers, data scientists, researchers, and data-driven development engineers to continuously drive growth in its AI-related services.

A LINE representative said, "We reorganized the structure to encourage comprehensive data utilization beyond the barriers between businesses and departments," adding, "We will seek ways to maximize the use of our vast data holdings and strive to improve usability of each service as well as create new AI-related services and features."

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