2023/09/19 | 3 mins

Upstage won the ' AI Technology Award', the highest award given by the Minister of Science and ICT at the '2023 AI Korea Awards'!

WHAT IS THE ‘2023 AI KOREA GRAND PRIZE’?

THE '2023 AI KOREA GRAND PRIZE', JOINTLY HELD BY EDAILY AND THE INTELLIGENT INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, IS AN AWARDS CEREMONY HELD IN COLLABORATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND ICT, THE MINISTRY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY, AND THE MINISTRY OF SMES AND STARTUPS TO DISCOVER KOREAN AI COMPANIES THAT CREATE FUTURE GROWTH ENGINES. THE ROUND HAS ARRIVED.

THE AWARD CATEGORIES INCLUDE THREE MINISTERIAL AWARDS, INCLUDING THE AI TECHNOLOGY AWARD (MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND ICT AWARD), AI APPLICATION AWARD (MINISTER OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY AWARD), AND MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE INNOVATION AWARD (MINISTER OF SMES AND STARTUPS AWARD), AND THE COEXISTENCE AWARD (MINISTER OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND ENERGY SMALL AND MEDIUM VENTURE BUSINESS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AWARD). ), AI INNOVATION AWARD (INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION CHAIRMAN'S AWARD), AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AWARD (E-DAILY CHAIRMAN'S AWARD). COMPANIES OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE SUCCEEDED IN INNOVATING SERVICES, PRODUCTS, PRODUCTION PROCESSES, ETC. USING AI OR DATA ANALYSIS SELECT .

AI TECHNOLOGY AWARD WINNER, DRIVING FORCE BEHIND UPSTAGE

Beating out prominent companies, Upstage was honored with this year's AI Technology Award (Minister of Science and ICT Award). According to Edaily , Upstage received high praise from the seven judges to the point where it was unanimously selected for the AI technology award . Professor Lee Sang-gu of Seoul National University, the chairman of the judging panel, mentioned that the reason for Upstage's selection was, "We have a number of AI models that have achieved excellent results in AI performance competitions and are expected to grow by contributing to the use and dissemination of AI in businesses such as Document AI and AskUp." . This is the result of Upstage's achievements in becoming an AI startup that attracts attention in the world for its technology.

1. Document AI boasts global top technology

Last April, Upstage beat global big tech companies such as Amazon and NVIDIA in the 'ICDAR Robust Leading Competition', the world's best competition in the AI-OCR field , and won 4 items (HierText-1/2, VQAonBD, IHTR) 1 It swept the top rankings, showing off its global top technology. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is largely divided into 'detection technology', which finds the location of letters in an image, and 'recognition technology', which finds out what the letters are. Upstage has the highest ranking in both categories, beating global big tech companies. The score was recorded.

The reason why these achievements were possible was because we used a new methodology that was different from existing ones through intense research. Existing detection technology uses a greatly reduced word area for learning to prevent adjacent word areas from overlapping each other, but the Upstage team uses a method of predicting word boxes by adding gaps between word areas instead of slightly reducing the word area and using it for learning. This significantly improved model performance.

Upstage's know-how accumulated through participation in various international competitions and collaboration with actual companies will be applied to the advancement of the Upstage Document AI solution that helps companies digitally transform, thereby achieving greater innovation in the future.

2. Upstage LLM ‘SOLAR’ beats ChatGPT

LAST AUGUST, UPSTAGE'S MODEL TOOK FIRST PLACE IN THE HUGGING FACE OPEN LLM LEADERBOARD RANKINGS.

Upstage focuses on domain specialization and optimization through its LLM model 'SOLAR' (Specialized and Optimized Llm and Applications with Reliability) and supplies Upstage SOLAR LLM, which can prevent learning and information leaks and hallucinations of corporate data. We are focusing on doing this. The performance of Upstage LLM was recorded at 72.3 points in the 'Open LLM (Large Language Model) Leaderboard' evaluation score operated by Hugging Face, the world's largest machine learning platform, last August , surpassing GPT-GPT, the basis of ChatGPT. It received attention as it was known that it surpassed the 3.5 performance and took first place . Based on the model used here, 'SOLAR' was launched, becoming the first domestic model to be applied to the main section of 'Poe', a global generation AI utilization platform, signaling the company's entry into the global market.

In addition, Upstage has differentiated competitiveness in LLM through its experience in building ‘KLUE’, the first Korean natural language understanding (NLU) evaluation dataset, and the operation of ‘AskUp’ , a representative domestic AI service that has exceeded 1.4 million users. has been equipped with By combining the prompt engineering and fine tuning know-how and technological assets accumulated so far, 'Upstage SOLAR LLM', a private AI for corporate customers, is expected to shine in various industries.

3. PERFORMANCE AND RESEARCH PERFORMANCE AT GLOBAL TOP AI ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

When talking about Upstage's technology, what cannot be left out is the various achievements and research results that have been proven in top global AI academic societies. Since its founding, Upstage has published more than 80 papers, including 7 OCR, 12 recommendations, 47 NLP, and 11 Data, at international conferences (ECCV, NAACL, CVPR, ICLR, ECCV, AAAI, NeurlPS, EMNLP, ACL). , RecSys, etc.) were announced.

Last June , we achieved the most research results among domestic companies by presenting 7 papers at 'ICML 2023-DMLR', which boasts the highest authority in Data-Centric AI. This includes “DMOps: Data Management Operations and Recipes,” which proposes a process for companies to effectively build artificial intelligence learning data, and “Inter-Annotator Agreement in the Wild: Uncovering Its,” which enables effective cost management and efficient construction when building data. Emerging Roles and Considerations in Real-World Scenarios”.

Upstage's 'DMOps' paper accepted at ICML 2023- DMLR

In addition, Upstage has an amazing record of being Korea's first double-digit gold medalist in 'Kaggle', also known as the AI Olympics. Kaggle is a community of data experts owned by Google and the world's most famous online artificial intelligence (AI) competition platform with 11 million participants from over 200 countries. Upstage is discovering technological research and innovative methodologies through consistent participation. We apply this to solving real business problems and strive to create better products.

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