2022/07/04

• UPSTAGE-GLORANG SIGNED A 'TALENT DEVELOPMENT RECOMMENDATION AI SOLUTION CONTRACT' FOR THE KIDS CLASS PLATFORM 'KUG'

• UTILIZING UPSTAGE AI TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE ACCURATE CLASS RECOMMENDATION SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN

• “BASED ON AI TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP, WE WILL STRIVE TO EXPAND THE AI ECOSYSTEM OF START-UPS AS WELL AS LARGE ENTERPRISES”

(Upstage = 2022/7/4) Korea's leading AI startup, Upstage, will provide recommended AI that maximizes children's potential and growth potential, expanding the foundation of the startup's AI ecosystem.

Upstage (CEO Kim Seong-hoon, www.upstage.ai) announced on the 4th that it had signed a 'Coog recommendation service introduction and use contract' with Glorang. Through this contract, Upstage is promoting the provision of a super-personalized class recommendation solution for users of the online kids school 'Coog'.

Over the past two years, the world has rapidly changed from face-to-face to non-face-to-face, and communication channels between people have changed from offline to online. In particular, as online-centered education continues, attention is growing in 'edutech', an industry that combines education and technology.

IN PARTICULAR, IN THE EDUTECH INDUSTRY, WHERE ONLINE CLASSES ARE CONDUCTED IN MOST EDUCATIONAL FIELDS DURING THE PANDEMIC AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF DATA HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED, AI TO PROVIDE LEARNING THAT SUITS THE LEVEL AND APTITUDE OF STUDENTS IS MORE THAN A 'NEED' BUT AN 'ESSENTIAL' TECHNOLOGY IS BECOMING

Upstage plans to provide Glorang with AI solutions based on technology proven by publishing a number of excellent papers at international AI conferences including NeurlPS, AAAI, ACL, and EMNLP, and winning the Kaggle double-digit gold medal for the first time in a domestic company. . 

THE RECOMMENDED AI SOLUTION PROVIDED BY UPSTAGE IS THE FIRST IN KOREA TO DIAGNOSE THE TALENTS OF CHILDREN'S USERS BASED ON THE RICH DATA OF 'COOG', THE NO. IT WILL BE USED AS A BASE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PRESENTED TALENT MANAGEMENT SERVICE. IN ADDITION, UPSTAGE PLANS TO USE AI-BASED ANALYSIS TOOLS TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE MODEL PERFORMANCE THROUGH INDICATOR MONITORING.

Glorang launched Kug, a non-face-to-face kids class platform for the ages of 5 to 13 in November 2020, and has grown by 40% every month based on class transactions. Currently, it is a representative edutech startup in Korea that has secured about 1,000 teachers in more than 2,000 classes, and has established itself as the number one non-face-to-face kids class platform based on traffic.

Upstage's 'educational AI' technology has already been proven. In February, Upstage proved its technological prowess by publishing a thesis on the core technology of customized learning using deep learning technology at 'The Web Conference 2022', the world's most prestigious international conference in the field of information technology. The thesis is about 'knowledge tracking AI', a core technology of educational AI that enables customized and hyper-personalized education for each individual student. An AI model that can track the understanding level of students using past learning records and identify the learners' current knowledge and points of improvement. It also drew attention as the first study to introduce contrast learning in

IN ADDITION, THIS COOPERATION IS MEANINGFUL AS UPSTAGE IS TRYING TO EXPAND THE AI ECOSYSTEM OF STARTUPS BASED ON ITS AI TECHNOLOGY. IN THE FUTURE, UPSTAGE PLANS TO DO ITS BEST TO STRENGTHEN SERVICE COMPETITIVENESS AND CONTRIBUTE TO ACCELERATING DIGITAL INNOVATION BY APPLYING AI TECHNOLOGY TO THE DATA OF COMPANIES THAT NEED AI THROUGH COOPERATION WITH VARIOUS STARTUPS.

UPSTAGE CEO KIM SEONG-HOON SAID, “WE ARE DELIGHTED TO PROVIDE A RECOMMENDED AI SOLUTION THAT AWAKENS CHILDREN’S POTENTIAL AND HELPS THEM GROW THROUGH COOPERATION WITH KOREA’S REPRESENTATIVE EDUTECH STARTUP GLORANG.” “BASED ON UPSTAGE’S AI TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP, WE IN ADDITION TO COOPERATION, WE WILL MAKE MORE EFFORTS TO EXPAND THE AI ECOSYSTEM OF STARTUPS THAT NEED AI TECHNOLOGY.”

Meanwhile, Upstage will launch the Nocode-Lowcode solution 'Upstage AI Pack' later this year, which will help customers to take advantage of 3 AI technologies, including OCR technology that allows them to extract and use the desired information from images, recommendation technology that takes into account customer information and product and service characteristics, and natural language processing search technology that enables meaning-based searches. The 'Upstage AI Pack' not only makes it easy to take advantage of data processing, AI modeling, and indicator management, but also supports continuous updates and makes it easy to use the latest AI technology at all times.

Contact

Upstage | Geun-Kyo Kim, PR Director | 010-8229-7240 | keunkyo@upstage.ai

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