Samsung, LG go head-to-head in AI components market

Samsung, LG go head-to-head in AI components market

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. and LG Innotek Co., two major South Korean suppliers for Apple iPhones, are going head-to-head in the artificial intel...

Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Samsung Electronics

Lunit to supply AI image analysis solutions to Samsung Electronics

South Korean medical AI company Lunit has secured a significant partnership with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co., signing a three-year, $1.86 mil...

Samsung looks to beat Apple with AI phones

Samsung looks to beat Apple with AI phones

With the Galaxy S24, Samsung Electronics Co.'s new flagship smartphone series, searching for real-time information and translation on the phone will...

Samsung Electronics expands Tizen OS to AI robot Ballie

Samsung  Electronics expands Tizen OS to AI robot Ballie

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. has applied its self-developed Tizen operating system (OS) to the artificial intelligence (AI) robot "Ballie"'...

DeepBrain AI launches deepfake detection solution

DeepBrain AI launches deepfake detection solution

South Korean AI startup DeepBrain AI announced on Friday that it released the country's first service-as-a-software (SaaS)-based deepfake detection ...

Naver unveils reports of Qatar Asian Cup utilizing AI

Naver unveils reports of Qatar Asian Cup utilizing AI

South Korea's Naver Corp. announced on Friday that it has published AI Scout Report for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup 2023, which...

SK Networks invests $19 mn in AI startup Upstage

SK Networks invests $19 mn in AI startup Upstage

South Korea's SK Networks Co. announced on Friday that it has invested 25 billion won ($19.02 million) in the domestic artificial intelligence (AI...

Samsung to double HBM chip production to lead on-device AI chip era

Samsung to double HBM chip production to lead on-device AI chip era

LAS VEGAS – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, plans to more than double its high bandwidth memory (HBM) chi...

Hyundai, Samsung-backed startups vie for spotlight at CES  

Hyundai, Samsung-backed startups vie for spotlight at CES  

LAS VEGAS – At CES, big tech names often take center stage but this is also a dream place for underdogs to become rising stars with unconventi...

Upstage installs Solar in KakaoTalk AI services

Upstage installs Solar in KakaoTalk AI services

South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI) tech startup Upstage announced on Thursday that its small language model (SLM) Specialized and Opti...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics eyes turnaround with Galaxy AI

Samsung Electro-Mechanics eyes turnaround with Galaxy AI

Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., the top electronic components maker in South Korea, aims for a turnaround this year with the launch of the first arti...

Korea's JLK targets AI-based stroke care market in US

Korea's JLK targets AI-based stroke care market in US

South Korea’s JLK Inc., an AI-based stroke care platform maker, will go all out to build its foothold in the US this year, aiming to lift its ...

Hyundai’s 42dot, Samsung to develop AI-powered SDV platform

Hyundai’s 42dot, Samsung to develop AI-powered SDV platform

LAS VEGAS – Hyundai Motor Group’s self-driving technology unit 42dot Inc. will develop an artificial intelligence-powered software-defin...

Upstage's AI beats global peers in benchmark math tests

Upstage's AI beats global peers in benchmark math tests

South Korean artificial intelligence tech startup Upstage said on Monday that its math-specific large language model (LLM), jointly developed with l...

LG Uplus invests $7.6 mn in 42Maru

LG Uplus invests $7.6 mn in 42Maru

South Korea’s LG Uplus Corp. announced on Sunday that it has invested 10 billion won ($7.6 million) in 42Maru, a domestic language AI startup....

Samsung ramps up on-device NPU chip R&D; LG Electronics joins race

Samsung ramps up on-device NPU chip R&D; LG Electronics joins race

Samsung Electronics Co., in a rare move, has added 200 engineers to its system-on-chip design team at its research center in South Korea to develop ...

Samsung dubs upcoming Galaxy S24 AI phone as on-device AI race rages on

Samsung dubs upcoming Galaxy S24 AI phone as on-device AI race rages on

Employees at Samsung Electronics Co.'s Mobile eXperience (MX) division recently developed a habit of referring to the upcoming Galaxy series of smar...

SK Telecom, Naver, AfreecaTV to introduce AI in sportscasting

SK Telecom, Naver, AfreecaTV to introduce AI in sportscasting

SK Telecom Co., Naver Corp., and AfreecaTV have joined forces to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the sports broadcasting field....

Virtual humans debut on Korean Air’s in-flight video

Virtual humans debut on Korean Air’s in-flight video

Korean Air Lines Co. released on Thursday a new in-flight safety video featuring a virtual human dressed as a flight attendant. This is the first ti...

Samsung to unveil budget phone Galaxy A25

Samsung to unveil budget phone Galaxy A25

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will launch the Galaxy A25 5G, a new budget phone in the South Korean market on Jan.5.It featu...

Digital healthcare, robot, AI chip startups among VCs’ 2024 top picks

Digital healthcare, robot, AI chip startups among VCs’ 2024 top picks

Startups that specialize in digital healthcare, robots and artificial intelligence chips are among South Korea-based venture capital firms’ to...

S-1 sees facial recognition AI as core trend in 2024

S-1 sees facial recognition AI as core trend in 2024

South Korea's system securities provider S-1 Corp. has forecasted a significant rise in the demand for AI-powered security solutions this year, pr...

Samsung to unveil new Odyssey gaming monitors at CES

Samsung to unveil new Odyssey gaming monitors at CES

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Wednesday that it will unveil new Odyssey OLED gaming monitors at CES 2024, the world's largest IT and consum...

Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war 

Samsung, SK Hynix join forces with foreign rivals to win AI chip war 

South Korea’s two chip giants Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. are expected to further deepen ties with rivals and customers from aro...

LG Electronics unveils 2024 QNED TV

LG Electronics unveils 2024 QNED TV

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Thursday that it will unveil the 2024 QNED TV (Quantum nano-emitting diode) equipped with the artificial intelligen...

Samsung to unveil AI-feature vacuum cleaner at CES

Samsung to unveil AI-feature vacuum cleaner at CES

Samsung Electronics Co. announced on Thursday that it will unveil a new vacuum cleaner, the Bespoke Jet Bot Combo, at the upcoming CES 2024. This ...

Samsung to release Galaxy Book3 Go 5G laptop

Samsung to release Galaxy Book3 Go 5G laptop

Samsung Electronics Co. will release the Galaxy Book3 Go 5G laptop, which supports 5G networks on Jan. 2. Next year.The device features a 14-inch LC...

Hyundai Motor reveals facelift of G80 sedan

Hyundai Motor reveals facelift of G80 sedan

Hyundai Motor Co.'s premium brand Genesis released a facelift of its signature large sedan G80 on Tuesday. This car is the revamped third-generatio...

ESTsoft launches conversational AI service Alan

ESTsoft launches conversational AI service Alan

South Korea's AI service specialist company ESTsoft Corp. announced on Tuesday that it launched its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) serv...

HD Hyundai, Google Cloud team up to accelerate generative AI innovation

HD Hyundai, Google Cloud team up to accelerate generative AI innovation

HD Hyundai Co., South Korea’s shipbuilding-to-heavy machinery conglomerate, said on Tuesday it has teamed up with Google Cloud, the informatio...

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