Gwangju City and AI Specialized Companies Join Hands to 'Establish a Foundation'

Agreement Among Four Companies: DataNuri, Superb AI, WeCreative, and Testworks

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 1st that it has signed the 92nd to 95th business agreements with AI specialized companies Data Nuri Co., Ltd., Superb AI Co., Ltd., WeCreative Co., Ltd., and Testworks Co., Ltd. to establish a Gwangju-type AI business foundation.

At this event, the city and the companies agreed to actively cooperate in creating the Gwangju AI ecosystem by establishing corporate entities or regional offices for each company.

Attending the signing ceremony were Mayor Lee Yong-seop, Kim Sun-min, Director of Gwangju Technopark, Tak Yong-seok, Director of Gwangju Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency, Kang Tae-won, CEO of Data Nuri, Lee Hyun-dong, Co-CEO of Superb AI, Park Tae-geon, Director of WeCreative, and Yoon Seok-won, CEO of Testworks.

Through the business agreements, Data Nuri Co., Ltd. will focus on big data and AI fields, Superb AI Co., Ltd. on data platform services, WeCreative Co., Ltd. on AI-based video content development, and Testworks Co., Ltd. on AI data fields. They will mutually promote cooperation in nurturing AI professionals and creating new jobs in the Gwangju area in each respective field.

The main agreement contents include ▲ fostering an ecosystem related to AI fields and providing technical and policy advice ▲ promoting the establishment of Gwangju corporations or regional offices for nurturing AI professionals and job creation ▲ developing and operating various corporate support programs and corporate promotion for AI industry ecosystem formation ▲ planning and promoting education and employment programs for AI specialized personnel.

The company representatives stated, “Through this agreement, we will do our best to become a core in the AI field in Gwangju and build an industrial ecosystem based on our globally competitive technology,” and added, “We will actively cooperate for mutual growth not only by creating jobs but also by nurturing specialized personnel and strengthening business competitiveness.”

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “Companies will grow into globally competitive enterprises, and our Gwangju will leap forward as an AI-centered city supporting AI powerhouse Korea,” emphasizing, “We will focus all our capabilities to create many new jobs through the formation of the AI industry ecosystem.”

Meanwhile, Data Nuri Co., Ltd. is a big data specialized company focusing on developing and supplying data and AI-related solutions, data processing, analysis, and consulting. Its main products include ▲ METIS Open Data Platform (data distribution and open solution) ▲ NURI SDT (smart linkage solution transmitting data sets and metadata) ▲ METIS Annotation Tool (authoring tool for AI training data).

Superb AI Co., Ltd. is a specialized company possessing a SaaS-based all-in-one AI data platform for building, managing, and analyzing AI training data developed in-house. Its main products include ▲ Superb AI Suite (machine learning data platform) ▲ Superb AI Data Service (public/private data construction and consulting).

WeCreative Co., Ltd. is a specialized company with extensive experience in character production and VR/AR-based content creation such as animation, advertising, promotional videos, and motion graphics. Its main products include ▲ Yamiyami New Media Early Childhood English Education Animation ▲ TV series Space Ranger (co-produced with Seoul Donghwa, the producer of Taekwon V) ▲ Honey Bear Berry (co-produced with Norway’s Northern Light).

Testworks Co., Ltd. is a social enterprise specializing in AI training dataset construction and software testing. Its products include ▲ aiworks (a specialized platform for collecting and processing training data for AI) ▲ blackolive (data automation, processing, and management solution) ▲ TEDworks (web compatibility diagnosis automation platform).

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