Upstage Expands 'National AI' Consortium with Experts from Stanford and New York University Joining

Yejin Choi of Stanford and Kyunghyun Cho of New York University Join the Consortium
Channel Corporation, Finda, and KETI Also Join as Service Partners

Upstage, which is participating as an elite team in the Ministry of Science and ICT's 'Independent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation Model Project,' announced on January 8 that it will expand its consortium. With this expansion, research teams from prestigious global universities and key domestic industry and public sector partners will newly join the consortium.

According to Upstage, world-renowned deep learning scholars Professor Yejin Choi of Stanford University and Professor Kyunghyun Cho of New York University will newly join the consortium. Upstage plans to enhance its model technology and strengthen its technological competitiveness by expanding joint research and talent exchange with these scholars.

Upstage, participating as an elite team in the Ministry of Science and ICT's 'Independent AI Foundation Model Project,' announced on the 8th that it will expand its consortium. Photo by Upstage

Specialized services based on Upstage's proprietary AI model, 'Solar Open,' will also be further expanded. Channel Corporation, which operates the business messenger 'Channel Talk,' is developing a customer service (CS) AI agent, while fintech company Finda is building specialized services such as personalized financial product comparison and recommendation. The Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) will support research on specialized agents for the public sector and AI transformation (AX).

This consortium expansion was carried out to elevate core model research capabilities to a global level ahead of the project's second phase. It is also interpreted as a strategic move to expand AI transformation (AX) services across various industries.

Upstage aims to further enhance the technical completeness and performance of 'Solar Open' through the expanded consortium, with the goal of introducing a national-level frontier model.

Kim Sunghun, CEO of Upstage, stated, "With research collaborations involving global scholars from institutions such as Stanford and New York University, and the participation of partners representing each industry, the development of proprietary AI models and the spread of AX will accelerate. We will do our utmost to achieve self-reliance in AI technology and to vitalize the AI ecosystem in Korea."