"Let's Speed Up Commercialization"...Nakao Lowers the Threshold for Supergiant AI

Sharing Supermassive AI Technology with Public Institutions and Startups
From In-House Technology Advancement to Partner Expansion for Commercialization Competition

[Asia Economy Reporter Yuri Choi] Naver and Kakao have launched a battle for dominance to lower the barriers to ultra-large artificial intelligence (AI) technology and expand the ecosystem. They are sharing related technologies with public institutions and startups to support service development. This is a move to accelerate the commercialization of ultra-large AI and secure leadership in the related ecosystem.

According to the IT industry on the 26th, Naver added a tuning function to 'Clova Studio' on the 23rd. This function allows users to utilize some of the intelligence (parameters) of the ultra-large AI 'HyperClova' according to their purposes. Even without owning AI technology or personnel, users can create the desired language model by uploading a standardized amount of data.

A Naver Cloud official said, "HyperClova has been pre-trained on Naver's vast data, so there is an effect of utilizing it," adding, "Currently, the tuning function is provided only for the Korean model, but multilingual models such as English will be added."

Clova Studio is a platform where AI application possibilities can be explored and actually used in services without specialized development knowledge. Users can implement AI by entering simple descriptions and examples or browse and utilize AI created by other users. Since the beta service started in February, about 100 startups have participated.

They have also joined the public-private joint program led by the government. Participating as a supplier in the ultra-large AI pilot project by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), they provide technology to domestic public and research institutions and universities. Using HyperClova, AI functions such as conversation, Q&A, summarization, text generation, and transformation are provided in the form of application programming interfaces (APIs).

Kakao is also sharing ultra-large AI models and foundational technologies externally through its AI research subsidiary Kakao Brain. At the end of this month, it plans to release a high-quality image and data set that forms the basis of ultra-large AI research. Then, around September to October, it will hold a session to share research results and announce plans to foster the related ecosystem.

Since the end of last year, Kakao has released the Korean language-specialized ultra-large AI 'KoGPT' and the AI 'minDALL-E' that handles images and text together on the global open-source platform GitHub. They explained that they intend to develop AI models through collaboration with engineers worldwide.

Naver and Kakao are lowering the barriers to ultra-large AI technology to speed up service commercialization. They aim to collaborate with various companies across different industries to create services that blend into everyday life and secure leadership in the AI ecosystem.

Results are also emerging. Startups 'Uju Moonbanggu' and 'Luten Technologies' developed AI services using Clova Studio. Uju Moonbanggu launched an assistant writer AI that recommends various suitable expressions based on sentences input by writers. Luten Technologies released a solution that helps writing by asking questions on user-input topics or recommending reference materials.

An industry official emphasized, "To popularize ultra-large AI technology, it is important to create the connecting link that applies it as much as the AI technology itself," adding, "The barrier to AI technology, which requires vast data and infrastructure, must be lowered to secure as many partners as possible."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.