NC AI CTO Kim Min-jae (fifth from the left) and officials from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, along with representatives from both sides, pose for a commemorative photo. (Provided by NC AI) NC AI, an industry-specialized AI company, announced on April 28 that key officials from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences visited its facilities to observe its proprietary AI technologies and their…
ACL 2026 VAIV Company research paper (Photo provided by VAIV Company) VAIV Company announced on April 23 that a joint research paper, in which its researchers participated as the first authors, has been accepted to the main conference of 'ACL 2026', the most prestigious academic conference in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is the…
NVIDIA B200 "Blackwell" Accelerator. A total of 264 high-performance Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) will be provided free of charge to small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises and artificial intelligence (AI) startups facing difficulties due to a lack of AI infrastructure. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) announced on April 21, "We will utilize 264 units of the B200 model GPU for…
Dr. Kobayashi (second from left), Jeong-eun Yoon, CEO of Greycoat Research (second from right), and Prof. Toshiro Arai (far right). Greycoat Research, a feline healthcare company, is strengthening its position as a research-driven company by enhancing its research and development capabilities in collaboration with leading clinical experts in Japan. The company announced on April 10 that it has…
A one-person creative businesses center in Anyang City. (Photo courtesy of Anyang City) An analysis has revealed that the number of one-person creative businesses is steadily increasing, and their average sales and net profit are also showing growth, as the trend of 'prepared entrepreneurship' becomes more pronounced. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups announced the results of its 'Survey on the…
There are significant concerns throughout the venture and startup industry regarding the direction for OSDAQ segmentation. (Businesskorea DB) The venture industry has emphasized that the government's 'Direction for Introducing a Promotion/Relegation-style Segmentation to KOSDAQ' requires meticulous design. On April 3, the Council of Innovative Venture Organizations (comprising the Korea Venture…
Cho Hee-jin, CEO of AnnycoEdu (left), poses for a commemorative photo with an official after receiving the IFIA Best Invention Award. (Photo provided by AnnycoEdu) EdTech company AnnycoEdu Inc.(CEO Cho Hee-jin) announced on March 18 that it won the 'IFIA Best Invention Award', presented by the International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA), at 'The 51st Geneva International Exhibition…
SBVA (CEO: JP Lee) announced today that it has committed a total of 30 million in the seed round of AMI (Advanced Machine Intelligence), a global frontier AI lab founded by Professor Yann LeCun, one of the world's foremost pioneers in artificial intelligence. The round includes participation from leading global institutional investors such as Greycroft Partners, Cathay Innovation, and Hiro…
ⓒ Global ImpactPreneur poster UNDP Seoul Policy Centre (Director Anne Juepner) and the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation (Chairman Moosung Chung) are launching 'Global ImpactPreneur' to select and accelerate impact start-ups across the Asia-Pacific. Organized with implementation support from Impact Square (CEO Hyun-myung Doh), the programme officially launched in March 2026 with the goal of…
Signboard of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. (Photo provided by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups) The government has decided to strengthen the growth foundation of the defense industry ecosystem and foster a culture of mutual cooperation with large corporations, aiming to nurture 100 defense-participating startups and 30 venture companies worth 100 billion won each by 2030. The Ministry of…