Kakao Enterprise Partners with 'FuriosaAI' to Promote Joint AI and Metaverse Business

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Nahum] Kao Enterprise announced on the 8th that it has signed a business agreement with PuriosaAI to jointly promote computer vision, metaverse, and hyperscale projects.

PuriosaAI is a domestic startup that designs and develops hardware and software necessary for high-performance artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. Recently, it gained recognition for its technology by launching the high-performance AI semiconductor for computer vision, 'Warboy.'

This collaboration marks Kao Enterprise's first partnership in the domestic AI semiconductor industry. Going forward, they plan to expand the scope of business promotion with PuriosaAI and explore various ways to utilize AI chips specialized by industry to enhance competitiveness in the AI and cloud markets.

Based on this agreement, the two companies will jointly conduct research and business in various fields such as AI, metaverse, and hyperscale. Kao Enterprise will further advance its enterprise IT platform and AI services by utilizing PuriosaAI's semiconductors. Combining Kao Enterprise's solutions with PuriosaAI's first-generation chip 'Warboy,' they will develop businesses in vertical sectors including transportation, finance, logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare.

As part of this, PuriosaAI's high-performance chips will be equipped with Kao Enterprise's latest vision technologies such as OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and MOT (Multi-object Tracking), and these will be provided to corporate clients seeking to implement their own AI systems.

They will also actively cooperate to build infrastructure for hyperscale AI models. Kao Enterprise plans to create synergy by integrating its excellent infrastructure and network technologies with PuriosaAI's ultra-high-speed parallel computing methods and virtualization technologies. They aim to jointly build a supercluster necessary for the actual service of hyperscale AI, collaborate with client companies developing services using hyperscale models, and discover new business opportunities.

Baek Sangyeop, CEO of Kao Enterprise, said, "By combining the technologies and know-how of both companies, we will create successful business models in AI, metaverse, and cloud fields," adding, "We will continue to focus on enhancing AI technology expertise and developing future new technologies."

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