Upstage Fall Picnic - Be together, 13e Upstage
2023/10/19 | 3 mins
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Haley (Content Communication)
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Anyone who wants to know about Upstage
Anyone curious about the company culture of a fully remote work startup
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In October, when blue autumn skies arrived, upstage stars gathered together for the first time in a year! Upstage, which is implementing a fully remote work system, had a nice offline meeting at a camping barbecue area where they could enjoy the warm autumn sunlight. Would you like to meet Upstage’s friendly fall daytime picnic?
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✔️ Be together, 13e Upstage
✔️ Join us on an autumn morning!
✔️Preparing to become a real star
✔️Upstage’s first birthday party 🎂
✔️ Doran Doran BBQ Party 🍖
✔️ The joy of sharing 💝
In October, when blue autumn skies arrived, upstage stars gathered together for the first time in a year! Upstage, which is implementing a fully remote work system, is also arranging times for company-wide gatherings offline. Last summer, we all made memories by running as one team at the sports day, and this year, we had a great time meeting each other at a camping barbecue area where we could enjoy the warm fall sunlight. Would you like to meet Upstage’s friendly fall daytime picnic?
Be together, 13e Upstage
The theme of this fall picnic included the following meaning to share good energy for moving forward together.
🎂 B : In celebration of Upstage's 3rd B-day in October 2023, we used B as a motif to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of our founding and to wish for the success of Series B.
🚀 13e : Upstage is a place where you can go beyond the unicorn boasting a corporate value of 1 trillion and dream of becoming a 10 trillion decacorn . If you express 10 trillion as a number, it is 1e13.
⭐️Be Upstage : The people who created ‘Upstage’, the leading AI player, are the stars . 'Upstage' means 'ourselves' and all stars are upstage.
Let’s enjoy this fall morning together!
‘Be together, 13e Upstage’ began on a refreshing fall morning at Cheonggyesan Mountain. Before the full-scale event, people who wanted to climb Cheonggyesan Mountain to experience the atmosphere of fall gathered together to start the morning with a pre-program. I grabbed some gimbap to relieve my hunger and headed to Oknyebong Peak.
After eating Cheonggyesan Mountain, take some kimbap with you~
Stars leaving for Oknyeobong Peak
The stars went on a 2-hour round-trip hiking course and had time to recharge and share stories they hadn't talked about before! I was able to get a glimpse of the autumn hiking atmosphere through a shot at Oknyeobong Peak, which was my destination. What was the barbecue area like while preparations for the event were in full swing?
“Find the three hidden upstage stars in the photos!”
Ready to meet a real star
At this fall outing, a small random book sharing event was planned where special gifts (tumblers, wappens, towels) were made for stars who were meeting for the first time in a long time, as well as books that impressed them. Thanks to the TF gathering in advance and decorating the site so that many people could capture their memories of the day, an event venue with a fall camping atmosphere was completed.
As the start time approached, the stars began to gather one by one, and the tent placement for the day was randomly determined according to the stickers attached to the goods each person received. The group tent tea time was also lively, with the added fun of meeting today's group members upon entering.
Upstage’s third birthday party 🎂
All the stars who came a long way to meet offline have gathered in one place and the first event, Sedoljabi, has finally begun! Upstage celebrated its 3rd anniversary this October. In addition to sharing affectionate testimonials and congratulatory messages from stars who have been together through hardships and hardships for a long time, we also do Sedoljab in hopes of a greater future for Upstage.
Part 1 of the event that started with Sedoljabi
WHAT KIND OF ITEMS APPEARED IN SEDOLJABI? UNTIL THE DAY WHEN COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD INNOVATE THEIR BUSINESSES WITH UPSTAGE AND AI, UPSTAGE HOPES TO BECOME MORE WIDELY KNOWN. FROM THE “MIC” YOU HELD, JUMP! A VARIETY OF ITEMS WERE SELECTED, INCLUDING A “FROG DOLL” DEPICTING A LEAP FORWARD TO THE UPSTAGE AND A “LUCKY BAG” FULL OF GOOD LUCK. AS THE SAYING GOES, “INTERPRETATION IS BETTER THAN DREAMS,” AND IT WAS A TIME TO ADMIRE THE POSITIVE ENERGY AND INDIVIDUAL SENSE OF THE STARS AT SEDOLJABI.
Doran Doran BBQ Party 🍖
After the fun Sedoljabi, it's lunch time that everyone has been waiting for! Since fall is the season for camping, since we gather outdoors, barbecue is a must. Let's get together in groups and enjoy a barbecue party. The stars look excited as they prepare the barbecue with ingredients in their baskets.
The barbecue area was soon filled with the smell of delicious meat. We took out a can of AskUp Highball, which we had specially saved for the fall picnic, and had a pleasant meal. Thanks to being able to enjoy the fall camping atmosphere with delicious food, the stars' happiness index also went up! It's lunch.
The joy of sharing 💝
The end of the event was quickly approaching and was filled with the joy of sharing with the stars. In the prize drawing event , the winners were selected based on the contents of the fortune cookie each person selected. It was a time when everyone was able to laugh through the fortune cookie message that made people imagine a hopeful future where hard work pays off. Choosing the three lucky winners for bonus prizes was the highlight of this event!
Before ending the picnic and returning, the area around the random book sharing basket was noisy. One of the things to prepare for this picnic was to bring a book that you had read with great interest or that you would like to recommend. Upstage has many celebrities who enjoy reading, as they can freely purchase work-related books. Thanks to this, a meaningful opportunity was created to share with colleagues a carefully packaged book containing an impressive passage or a message to be conveyed to the star who will receive the book.
So far, it has been a record of a friendly picnic with about 100 stars on a refreshing fall day. Based on the energy we shared together, I look forward to running hard for the rest of the year and seeing you again brightly. We send a strong message of support to the Upstage stars who are working hard in their respective positions today. “Be together, 13e Upstage!”
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Upstage is a leading domestic AI startup established in October 2020. Upstage stands out in the large language model (LLM) industry by taking first place on the Hugging Face leaderboard with performance exceeding ChatGPT's benchmark score for the first time in OpenLLM history. Based on these technologies, we present a reliable private LLM standard that maximizes data security and solves hallucination, helping companies conveniently use cutting-edge technology. In addition, Upstage's Chat AI 'AskUp' has over 1.4 million users, establishing itself as the largest AI service in Korea. Document AI Pack, another Upstage representative solution, utilizes AI OCR technology that has won the world's most prestigious OCR competition to automate documents by increasing efficiency and accuracy. By optimizing document processing through a pre-trained model with minimal data, cost and time are dramatically minimized compared to manual methods. Lastly, through the education program 'EduStage', we are also actively engaged in the educational content business that fosters differentiated professional talent who can be immediately put into AI business through hands-on education that incorporates AI business experience and solid AI basic education.
Upstage is comprised of members from global big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon, NVIDIA, Meta, and Naver, and has participated in many world-renowned AI academic societies such as NeurlPS, ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, WWW, CHI, WSDM, and DMLR. We are solidifying our unrivaled leadership in AI technology by publishing excellent papers and becoming the only domestic company to win double-digit gold medals in the online AI competition Kaggle. While working as a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Upstage CEO Kim Seong-hoon won the ACM Sigsoft Distinguished Paper Award, the best paper award, four times for his research on bug prediction and automatic source code generation that combined software engineering and machine learning, and won 10 awards at the International Conference on Software Maintenance. He is considered a world-class AI guru who received the most influential paper award in 2018, and is also widely known as an instructor of 'Deep Learning for Everyone' with a total of more than 7 million views. Additionally, Upstage's co-founders include CTO Lee Tal-seok, who led Naver Visual AI/OCR and achieved world-class results, and CSO Park Eun-jung, who led the model team of Papago, the world's best translator.
