CJ Officially Launches AI Center... Full-Scale AI-Based Digital Innovation Begins

Published 20 Apr.2022 14:18(KST)

Updated 15 Mar.2023 18:48(KST)

CJ Officially Launches AI Center... Full-Scale AI-Based Digital Innovation Begins

[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] CJ has officially launched its AI Center and is embarking on a full-scale group digital innovation.

On the afternoon of the 20th, CJ held an opening ceremony for the AI Center at Sinsa Square AI Center in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. The event was attended by more than 50 people, including Cha In-hyuk, CEO of CJ OliveNetworks and group CDO (Chief Digital Officer), Shin Hyung-kwan, CEO of CJ LiveCity, Lee Chi-hoon, head of the AI Center, leading corporate AI and digital innovation experts, heads of university-affiliated research institutes, startup CEOs, and senior officials from embassies in Korea.

The CJ AI Center is located in Sinsa Square, spanning a total of four floors, and consists of research labs, office spaces, and an AI showroom. It also includes spaces for external researchers and startups to promote industry-academia cooperation and industry exchange. The center is staffed by about 30 researchers, including the center head, and plans to secure more outstanding talent with AI expertise in the future.

The AI Center is expected to serve as CJ’s AI hub, integrating and managing AI infrastructure and data that had been dispersed across subsidiaries. Additionally, it will play roles such as ▲solving business challenges of subsidiaries using AI ▲activating the AI ecosystem through open collaboration with external expert groups and startups ▲nurturing AI professionals and establishing group digital transformation strategies and education. In particular, leveraging the group’s strength as a lifestyle culture company, it will actively pursue the discovery of new growth engines based on high-quality big data closely related to daily life.

Furthermore, the center plans to contribute to the activation of the AI-based digital innovation ecosystem by engaging in various collaborations with academic expert groups such as Seoul National University AI Institute, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Chung-Ang University, as well as startups closely related to CJ’s business fields.

Lee Chi-hoon, head of the center, said, “CJ, which possesses numerous customer touchpoints and big data, has the optimal conditions and potential for AI research and development,” adding, “We will contribute to creating a more advanced lifestyle culture paradigm by developing more innovative technologies and sustainable platforms.”