Upstage and Qanda Makes World's Best Math-LLM
11/15/2023Upstage-Qanda signs a contract to develop private LLM specializing in mathematics domain
COMBINING THE WORLD'S NO. 1 UPSTAGE TECHNOLOGY AND QANDA'S HIGH-QUALITY DATA, WE DEVELOPED THE WORLD'S BEST MATHEMATICS-SPECIALIZED LLM.
FIRST APPLICATION OF UPSTAGE PRIVATE LLM EDUCATION DOMAIN… WE WILL EXPAND INTO VARIOUS INDUSTRIES
(Upstage = 2023/11/15) Upstage and Qanda have become pioneers in the domestic industry by jointly developing a Large Language Model (LLM) capable of solving mathematical problems.
Upstage announced its partnership with Qanda on 15th, through which the two companies will join hands to create a private LLM specialized in mathematics domain.
The realm of generative AI is expanding into specialized knowledge areas like mathematics, as demonstrated by WolframAlpha's integration with the ChatGPT plug-in. However, general-purpose models often exhibit errors, especially in straightforward calculations, and the persistent issue of 'AI hallucination,' generating false information, remains.
In response, the two companies are actively advancing the specialized language model, tentatively named 'MathGPT.' This model is designed to minimize hallucinations, providing problem-solving capabilities and explanations through mathematical reasoning. Following strategic investment from KT in September, Upstage and Qanda initiated joint development of the MathGPT. Upstage handles the model's engine and fine-tuning, while Qanda contributes specialized mathematical data for model learning.
Leveraging the technology that secured the top position in Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard, Upstage incorporates Qanda's extensive, high-quality data to train a macro language model. This model is engineered to comprehend complex mathematical formulas and concepts challenging to express in natural language. The ultimate goal is to present the world's leading LLM, surpassing the performance of GPT-3.5.
Through this collaboration, Upstage visualizes its entry into the private LLM field within the knowledge education sector. The Upstage private LLM, specialized in preventing hallucinations by learning only internal data, boasts a significant competitive edge in the education industry, where accurate answers and problem explanations are crucial.
Moving forward, Upstage plans to expand its private LLM territory based on its proprietary language model, 'Solar.' Recent agreements with major companies, including Connect Wave, Lotte Shopping, and Metaverse Entertainment, mark the beginning of earnest commercialization efforts. The overarching strategy involves broadening the application of generative AI across diverse industry sectors, such as finance and manufacturing.
Sung Kim, CEO of Upstage, said, "We are delighted to apply private LLM in the mathematics domain, considered an uncharted area, in collaboration with Qanda, Korea’s premier AI learning platform." He added, "In the future, Upstage will leverage the world's leading LLM technology to provide services across various industries. We aim to lead AI innovation."
Yongjae Lee, CEO of Qanda, said, "We will offer a personalized educational experience to more students with 'MathGPT,' developed jointly by both companies using cutting-edge technology." He added, "Quanda, a revolutionary force in the Asian education market with solution search, is creating another opportunity through AI Tutor. We are committed to technological innovation."
※ Photo caption: Upstage is developing a ‘mathematics domain-specialized private LLM’ with Masspresso, operator of AI-based learning platform Qanda.
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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.
