Ten firms, including Eastsoft, Acryl, Funzin, and Imcloud, were honored with the ‘2023 Korea Artificial Intelligence Industry Grand Prize’.

The Korea Artificial Intelligence Industry Awards, co-hosted by the Intelligent Information Industry Association, Exporum, and AI Times, and sponsored by the Ministry of Science and ICT, was held on the COEX Grand Ballroom in Seoul on the twenty ninth.

The event was attended by Choi Yang-hee, president of Hallym University, Park Yoon-gyu, second vice minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT, Choi Young-hae, president of the Korea Information and Communications Technology Association, Jang Hong-seong, chairman of the Intelligent Information Industry Association, Search engine marketing-won Search engine marketing, CEO of Maeil Economic Each day, and AI Times editor Kim Soon-gi.

At this 12 months’s awards ceremony, awards got to 10 firms that presented innovation and vision within the AI ​​industry to strengthen domestic and international competitiveness within the AI-related industry.

The Minister of Science and ICT Award went to East Soft and Acrylic. Smart Radar System and Mobilint received the President’s Award from the Intelligent Information Industry Association, Makina Locks and B2N received the President’s Award from the Korea Information and Communication Technology Association, and Diovistudio and Testworks received the Chairman’s Award from the Maekyung Media Group. The AI ​​Times Chairman Award was won by Funzin and I’m Cloud.

Eastsoft (CEO Jung Sang-won), which has been within the IT business for over 20 years with Aljip, has recently launched a latest AI business and is specializing in AI human production technology. On this ‘2023 Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Show’, ‘AI Human’, ‘AI Persona’, and ‘AI Studio Persona’ using augmented reality (AR) were introduced.

Acryl (CEO Park Oe-jin) provides software that helps firms develop AI services. The representative product is the ML Ops platform ‘Jonathan’.

Funzin (CEO Gam Deug-hwa), which has developed technologies from 3G to 5G through mobile communication, AI, and AIoT (Intelligent Web of Things) platforms, is expanding its business areas to the defense industry, robot mobility, and medical care based on its collected capabilities. there’s. At this event, AIoT platform and various AI technologies were also showcased.

I’m Cloud (CEO Lee Doo-sik) introduced ‘Adhue’, an AI virtual human solution based on AI voice technologies akin to TTS (Text to Speech) and STT (Speech to Text), image and video synthesis technology, and AI chatbot technology. It’s a platform where anyone can easily create an AI virtual human and produce related videos, and shortly it would be linked to the ChatGPT function.

As well as, Smart Radar System (CEO Kim Yong-hwan) is an organization that has antenna design and arrangement for millimeter wave radar, radar signal processing software, and AI technology, that are the core technologies of 4D imaging radar. It’s an AI semiconductor startup that developed ‘Eris’.

Makinalax (CEO Yoon Seong-ho), specializing in MLOps, introduced the platform ‘Runway’, and B2N (CEO, Kwang-Won Cho), specializing in big data, introduced ‘RAFLO’, an AI learning data integration platform, and ‘SDQ for AI’, an information quality management solution. .

DioByStudio (CEO Jae-Wook Oh) ​​is a virtual human company well-known for ‘Yeojeong Yoon Face Restoration CF’, and Testworks (CEO Seok-Won Yoon) unveiled ‘Black Olive 3D’, a lidar dataset construction solution, which is a key technology.

Chang Hong-seong, chairman of the Intelligent Information Industry Association, held the award ceremony and said, “The award ceremony just isn’t the top, but the start. In the longer term, we are going to make efforts to create a virtuous cycle within the AI ​​industry and further activate the AI ​​industry market by widely publicizing the award-winning firms and AI technologies.” said.

In a congratulatory speech, Vice Minister Park Yoon-gyu of the Ministry of Science and ICT said, “I recently visited the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and felt that there was lots of interest in domestic technology from overseas and at the identical time, requests for collaboration were flocking.” We are going to spare no support for growth and overseas expansion.” He also added, “All technology firms, aside from the businesses that won this time, should receive awards.”

As well as, Yanghee Choi, President of Hallym University, said, “There’s one field by which Korea ranks last amongst OECD countries. It’s human resource development. Korea is in an especially short supply of experts. Hallym University has a reverse idea of ​​using AI to nurture AI talent. “I hope to make this an industry where AI firms can increase sales,” he said.

Meanwhile, this awards ceremony, which was held for the third time this 12 months, was held concurrently with the ‘2023 Artificial Intelligence & Big Data Show’, the biggest AI exhibition in Korea. Greater than 300 domestic and foreign firms will take part in this event held at COEX in Seoul until the thirtieth, exhibiting latest technologies in cutting-edge fields akin to AI, big data, robots, and metabus.

Reporter Juyoung Lee juyoung09@aitimes.com Reporter Semin Jang semim99@aitimes.com