Saltlux Partners with Basis Technology... Leading AI Natural Language Processing Companies from Korea and the USA Join Forces

SEOUL, KOREA - Saltlux, the lead organization of the second division of Exobrain, a representative national AI R&D project in Korea, announced on the 18th that it has formed a partnership with Basis Technology, a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) in the United States.

Exobrain, widely known for winning against humans in the 2016 Scholarship Quiz, means an artificial brain outside the human body and is Korea’s representative national AI R&D project aimed at developing core language cognition AI technologies capable of intellectual cooperation with humans. Major domestic research institutions are conducting joint research, with ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) leading the first division, Saltlux the second division, and KAIST responsible for the third division.

Saltlux has commercialized AI platform technology that understands human speech and enables deep conversations and expert-level question answering using Exobrain technology. Additionally, it is the first in Korea to export this technology overseas and is currently providing global services. Through this partnership with Basis Technology, joint research and development will be conducted in the fields of semantic networks and multilingual natural language understanding. Basis Technology participated as a second-division institution during the 8th phase of the Exobrain project (2020?2022) and aims to elevate multilingual natural language processing in conversational AI to a global standard or higher by utilizing its entity linking technology.

Carl Hoffman, CEO of Basis Technology, said, “We are pleased to collaborate with Saltlux through the Exobrain project. The cooperation between Saltlux, which possesses a neuro-symbolic based conversational system, and Basis Technology, which holds various core NLP technologies, in Korea’s rapidly advancing AI industry will serve as a turning point to overcome the limitations of existing multilingual natural language understanding and search technologies.”

Meanwhile, Saltlux is a leading AI company in Korea, holding the largest number of technology patents among domestic AI companies, with 121 patents including PCTs. It has built Asia’s largest knowledge base with 15 billion entries, leading technology development in AI and big data fields. Over the past 20 years since its founding, it has constructed a corpus of one million utterances and over 20,000 hours of voice data, applying these to deep learning-based speech recognition engines. Its main businesses include supplying AI platforms such as AI customer centers and chatbot customer service, public big data analysis platforms, and big data platforms for unstructured and customer voice analysis. Recently, it has been expanding cloud-based subscription services such as AIaaS (AI as a Service), data science SaaS services, large-scale data collection, and cognitive analysis. As the first AI software company to receive ‘AA’ and ‘A’ technology evaluations, it passed the preliminary review for KOSDAQ listing this month, proving its competitiveness as a leading AI company.