2023/9/15

• UPSTAGE PRESENTS REPRESENTATIVE COMPANIES RELATED TO AI ETHICS AND RELIABILITY ISSUES WITH GOOGLE OF THE U.S. AT THE KOREA-US ICT POLICY FORUM

• PRESENTS COOPERATION PLAN TO IMPROVE DATA QUALITY AND ETHICS WITH '1T CLUB', A DATA COLLECTION AND SHARING PLATFORM OPERATED BY THE COMPANY

• THE FOUNDATION OF LLM DEVELOPMENT IS DATA… “CREATING A VIRTUOUS CYCLE OF DATA PROVIDER RIGHTS AND AI DEVELOPMENT BENEFITS”

(Upstage = 2023/9/15) Upstage, which is attracting attention in the global AI industry by building the world's best open LLM model that surpasses ChatGPT, is an intergovernmental consultative body for Korea-US policy discussions as a representative company of each country along with Google of the United States. discussed AI trust.

UPSTAGE (CEO SEONG-HOON KIM) ANNOUNCED THAT IT ATTENDED AND MADE A PRESENTATION AS A REPRESENTATIVE KOREAN COMPANY AT THE 'KOREA-US ICT POLICY FORUM' HELD AT THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON, USA ON SEPTEMBER 13TH. UPSTAGE, ALONG WITH GOOGLE IN THE UNITED STATES, IS A REPRESENTATIVE PRIVATE AI COMPANY IN EACH COUNTRY AND MADE A PRESENTATION ON AI ETHICS AND RELIABILITY AT THIS EVENT.

THE KOREA-US ICT POLICY FORUM IS AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONSULTATIVE BODY THAT HAS BEEN HELD EVERY ONE TO TWO YEARS SINCE 2013 TO PROMOTE COOPERATION IN THE ICT FIELD BETWEEN THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND ICT AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF STATE. THIS MEETING IS THE 7TH. THIS FORUM WAS HELD ON SEPTEMBER 12TH AND 13TH AND WAS DIVIDED INTO A PUBLIC-PRIVATE SESSION AND A GOVERNMENT SESSION IN WHICH PRIVATE COMPANIES AND THE GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATED.

ON THE 12TH, THE FIRST DAY, UPSTAGE ATTENDED THE ICT EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SESSION, WHICH DISCUSSED AI ETHICS AND RELIABILITY, AND APPLICATION OF QUANTUM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AMONG THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE SESSIONS. KIM SEONG-HOON, CEO OF UPSTAGE, INTRODUCED '1T CLUB', A DATA COLLECTION AND SHARING PLATFORM OPERATED BY THE COMPANY, AS A REPRESENTATIVE EXAMPLE UNDER THE THEME OF 'INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION MEASURES AND UPSTAGE'S EFFORTS TO SECURE AI ETHICS/TRUSTWORTHINESS'.

CEO KIM SEONG-HOON COLLABORATES WITH EXPERTS IN VARIOUS FIELDS THROUGH THE '1T CLUB', WHICH SHARES PROFITS WITH CONTENT PROVIDERS TO COLLECT QUALITY DATA IN THE DATA COLLECTION PROCESS AND THEREBY STRENGTHENS THE RELIABILITY AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF AI-GENERATED RESULTS. THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENT COOPERATION FOR THIS PURPOSE WAS ANNOUNCED.

KIM SEONG-HOON, CEO OF UPSTAGE, SAID THAT ALTHOUGH VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, INCLUDING GLOBAL RESEARCH GROUPS AND COMPANIES, ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE POPULARIZATION OF LLM, THEY ARE MAINLY FOCUSING ON MODEL DEVELOPMENT, EMPHASIZING THAT MORE THAN HALF OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF AI TECHNOLOGY IS THE ROLE OF DATA, AND FOCUSING ON THE DATA COLLECTION STAGE TO INCREASE PROFITS. HE EMPHASIZED THAT THE CONTENT SECTOR THAT PROVIDES DATA THROUGH SHARING WILL ALSO BECOME MORE ACTIVE.

CEO KIM SEONG-HOON EXPLAINED THAT IN ORDER TO COLLECT GOOD DATA, UPSTAGE REFINES DATA AND CREATES MODELS BASED ON THE FIVE ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF 'PEOPLE-CENTEREDNESS', 'RELIABILITY', 'FAIRNESS', 'SAFETY', AND 'UNIVERSALITY'. THROUGH THIS, A VIRTUOUS CYCLE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED IN TERMS OF THE RELIABILITY AND ETHICS OF AI DATA, EMPHASIZING THAT WE ARE TAKING THE LEAD IN COLLECTING THE MOST IMPORTANT, TRUTHFUL, ETHICAL, AND HIGH-QUALITY DATA.

UPSTAGE'S '1T CLUB' IS ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS STARTING IN AUGUST AS A NEW CHALLENGE FOR UPSTAGE AS IT STRIVES TO NOT ONLY SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF LACK OF KOREAN DATA BUT ALSO TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENCE FOR DOMESTIC LLM BY ESTABLISHING AN ECOSYSTEM WHERE DATA PROVIDERS AND MODEL PRODUCTION COMPANIES COEXIST. . BY SECURING AND SHARING KOREAN DATA THROUGH THE 1T CLUB, UPSTAGE WILL DEVELOP A HIGH-QUALITY LLM THAT CAN CAPTURE KOREAN CULTURAL SENTIMENTS AND USE THIS DOMESTICALLY GENERATED AI IN APPLICATIONS IN VARIOUS FIELDS, CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

IN PARTICULAR, PARTNER COMPANIES PARTICIPATING IN THE '1T CLUB' CAN RECEIVE BENEFITS IN TWO WAYS, INCLUDING A DISCOUNT ON API USAGE FEES IN PROPORTION TO THE AMOUNT OF DATA PROVIDED AND SHARING THE PROFITS GENERATED BY LLM'S API BUSINESS, ATTRACTING HIGH INTEREST FROM DATA PROVIDER COMPANIES. I'M RECEIVING IT. UPSTAGE FURTHER IMPROVES KOREA'S AI CAPABILITIES THROUGH THE '1T CLUB' AND DOES ITS BEST TO ESTABLISH KOREA'S POSITION AS A LEADER IN THE GLOBAL AI INDUSTRY, AS WELL AS SIDE EFFECTS SUCH AS COPYRIGHT ISSUES, ESPECIALLY DUE TO AI LEARNING THROUGH CRAWLING. WE PLAN TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND OPERATE IT SO THAT BOTH DATA PROVIDERS AND MODEL CREATORS CAN BENEFIT.

Last month, Upstage was recognized for its AI technology by recording a score exceeding the benchmark of GPT3.5, ChatGPT's main model, in the large language model (LLM) field for the first time in the world. In addition, Upstage's chatbot 'AskUp', which is being serviced through KakaoTalk, is used by 1.4 million users, the largest in Korea, and is leading the popularization of domestically created AI. For B2B, we present a standard for a reliable private LLM and are discussing building a small LLM (sLLM) with various companies to maximize data security and solve the hallucination phenomenon of AI.

MEANWHILE, CEO KIM SEONG-HOON, WHO ALSO ATTENDED THE 'KOREA'S GIANT AI LEAP' MEETING CHAIRED BY PRESIDENT YOON SEOK-YEOL ON THE MORNING OF THE SAME DAY, SAID ON BEHALF OF AI STARTUPS, "WHEN AN ECOSYSTEM WHERE LARGE COMPANIES AND STARTUPS COEXIST IS CREATED, “KOREA’S REPRESENTATIVE COMPANIES, SUCH AS UPSTAGE, HAVE A CHANCE OF WINNING IN GLOBAL COMPETITION,” HE SAID, DRAWING ATTENTION FROM ATTENDEES.

CEO Kim Seong-hoon, who gave the presentation, has been a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 2009 and is a scholar who has won many of the world's most prestigious paper awards, including the most influential paper award, over the past 10 years. He has led the Naver Clova AI team. Afterwards, over the past 20 years, he established 'Upstage', a startup to universalize AI technology and accelerate AI transformation, and based on the vision of 'Making AI Beneficial', he used AI technology to solve corporate problems to make the world more beneficial with AI. Innovating through

KIM SEONG-HOON, CEO OF UPSTAGE, SAID, “WE EXPECT THAT THIS KOREA-US ICT POLICY FORUM WILL BE AN IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO FORM AN INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON AI ETHICS AND RELIABILITY AND STRENGTHEN COOPERATION.” HE ADDED, “UPSTAGE WILL REALIZE THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND VALUE OF AI.” “WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE THIS AND COOPERATE WITH VARIOUS PARTNERS,” HE SAID.

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