Upstage (CEO Kim Seong-hoon) announced on the sixth that it signed a man-made intelligence (AI) business MOU with LG Electronics (CEO Jo Joo-wan) and can begin constructing 'on-device AI'.
Because on-device AI processes information inside electronic terminals corresponding to smartphones, laptops, and tablets, it’s characterised by faster work speed and lower power consumption than cloud-based AI. As well as, security issues might be resolved without the chance of private information being leaked, and it could actually be operated even when the Web connection is unstable or disconnected.
Upstage plans to utilize its self-developed high-performance small language model (sLM) ‘SOLAR’. We plan to develop sLM for on-device AI that’s smaller than the present 10.7B (10.7 billion) parameter and install it on LG's laptop 'Gram'. We’re also considering developing on-device AI for home appliances.
That is the primary time that a domestic startup has announced that it can install and commercialize its own language model in a product. The one model known globally to use on-device AI is Google's 'Gemini Nano' installed in Samsung Electronics' 'Galaxy S24'. Nano was released in two versions for every parameter: 1.8B (Nano-1) and three.25B (Nano-2).
Microsoft (MS) also unveiled sLM 'Pi-2', which consists of two.7 billion parameters, at the top of last yr and announced that it had one of the best performance in on-device AI, nevertheless it just isn’t yet known whether there are any products applying this.
Upstage is confident in its technological capabilities to compete with global big tech.
In reality, upon its release last month, Solar ranked first in the worldwide AI platform Hugging Face LLM rating with a performance evaluation rating of 74.2 points. Over the following two weeks, all models in the highest 20 were solar-based, attracting industry attention.
Upstage and LG Electronics plan to first develop AI functions and extra services applicable to PC products, and services corresponding to on-device AI-based user voice command recognition, translation of documents or web pages, summary, search, and advice.
The reason is that in the longer term, it can evolve into an 'AI assistant' by recognizing the user's voice commands, searching and recommending the contents of documents stored contained in the device, or saving and summarizing the contents of video conferences as text. Afterwards, it was announced that the applying could be expanded to home appliances as well.
It is thought that the precise schedule has not yet been determined. An Upstage official explained, “We’ve got agreed on development, nevertheless it remains to be only on the MOU stage,” and “It is anticipated that it can take several months from the beginning of the project to organising for actual product application.”
Hongjun Choi, Vice President of Upstage, said, “We expect to have the opportunity to supply faster, more convenient, and safer AI services with LG Electronics.” He added, “Starting with applying the very best performance AI to the Gram laptop, which has recorded cumulative sales of two million units, we are going to improve user convenience and satisfaction. “We’ll do our greatest to extend it,” he said.
Gong Hyeok-jun, LG Electronics' IT CX manager, said, “We’ll actively goal the next-generation AI laptop market.”
Reporter Jang Se-min semim99@aitimes.com