UPSTAGE - LG ELECTRONICS BEGINS PIONEERING THE ON-DEVICE AI MARKET
2024/2/6UPSTAGE SIGNS 'AI BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING' WITH LG ELECTRONICS
PLAN TO APPLY LG LAPTOP GRAM BY DEVELOPING A LIGHTWEIGHT LANGUAGE MODEL BASED ON ON-DEVICE AI
RESOLVING SECURITY ISSUES OF FAST WORK AND CLOUD-BASED AI THROUGH INFORMATION PROCESSING INSIDE EDGE DEVICES
UPSTAGE DEVELOPS ON-DEVICE AI FOR PCS AND HOME APPLIANCES BASED ON THE WORLD’S BEST SLM SOLAR CONSTRUCTION KNOW-HOW
(Upstage = 2024/2/6) Upstage and LG Electronics joined hands to build the best on-device AI.
UPSTAGE (CEO KIM SEONG-HOON), KOREA'S TOP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) STARTUP, ANNOUNCED ON THE 6TH THAT IT SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) FOR PARTNERSHIP IN THE AI BUSINESS WITH LG ELECTRONICS (CEO JO JOO-WAN).
THE TWO COMPANIES PLAN TO DEVELOP AN ON-DEVICE AI-BASED LIGHTWEIGHT LANGUAGE MODEL AND APPLY IT TO THE LG LAPTOP GRAM. ON-DEVICE AI IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN PERFORM AI FUNCTIONS ON THE DEVICE ITSELF WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION.
ON-DEVICE AI PROCESSES INFORMATION INSIDE ELECTRONIC TERMINALS SUCH AS SMARTPHONES, LAPTOPS, AND TABLETS, SO IT HAS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FASTER WORK SPEED AND LOWER POWER CONSUMPTION THAN CLOUD-BASED AI. IN ADDITION, NOT ONLY DOES IT SOLVE SECURITY PROBLEMS BECAUSE PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT LEAKED TO THE OUTSIDE, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE OPERATED EVEN WHEN THE INTERNET CONNECTION IS UNSTABLE OR DISCONNECTED, SO YOU CAN USE AI SERVICES ANYTIME, ANYWHERE.
THROUGH THIS AGREEMENT, UPSTAGE PLANS TO DEVELOP ON-DEVICE AI FOR PCS AND HOME APPLIANCES USING THE KNOW-HOW OF BUILDING SOLAR, THE WORLD'S BEST SLM. SOLAR IS THE WORLD'S FIRST PRE-LEARNING MODEL CONSISTING OF 10.7 BILLION PARAMETERS (10.7B). AS SOON AS IT WAS RELEASED LAST MONTH, SOLAR RANKED FIRST IN THE GLOBAL AI PLATFORM HUGGING FACE LLM RANKING WITH A PERFORMANCE EVALUATION SCORE OF 74.2 POINTS, AND OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS, ALL MODELS IN THE TOP 20 WERE BASED ON SOLAR, ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF THE AI INDUSTRY. I HAVE ORDERED IT.
IN PARTICULAR, SOLAR HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF A SMALLER SIZE OF LESS THAN 1/10TH OF THAT OF GPT3 AND A MUCH FASTER INFERENCE SPEED, ALLOWING IT TO PROVIDE VARIOUS LANGUAGE-RELATED AI FUNCTIONS WITHOUT AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION OF THE DEVICE, MAKING IT THE OPTIMAL ON-DEVICE AI. SHE IS ATTRACTING ATTENTION AS A MODEL.
THE TWO COMPANIES PLAN TO DEVELOP AI FUNCTIONS AND ADDITIONAL SERVICES APPLICABLE TO PC PRODUCTS THROUGH COLLABORATION. WE DECIDED TO STRIVE TO IMPROVE USER EXPERIENCE BY UTILIZING ON-DEVICE AI TO DEVELOP SERVICES SUCH AS RECOGNIZING USERS' VOICE COMMANDS AND TRANSLATING, SUMMARIZING, SEARCHING, AND RECOMMENDING DOCUMENTS OR WEB PAGES.
Upstage and LG Electronics are expected to expand cooperation so that it can be applied not only to PC products but also to home appliances, considering the scalability of on-device AI technology. For example, it can recognize the user's voice commands, search and recommend the contents of documents stored in the laptop, or save and summarize video conference contents as text, providing a new experience like your own AI assistant.
UPSTAGE VICE PRESIDENT CHOI HONG-JUN SAID, “BY DEVELOPING AND APPLYING ON-DEVICE AI TECHNOLOGY WITH LG ELECTRONICS, WE EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FASTER, MORE CONVENIENT, AND SAFER AI SERVICES.” HE ADDED, “WE WILL PROVIDE THE HIGHEST-PERFORMANCE AI FOR 2 MILLION GRAM LAPTOPS WITH CUMULATIVE SALES.” “STARTING WITH THE APPLICATION OF , WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO ENABLE LG CUSTOMERS AROUND THE WORLD TO EXPERIENCE AI FUNCTIONS IN THE BEST LG ELECTRONICS HOME APPLIANCES AND INCREASE CONVENIENCE AND SATISFACTION.”
GONG HYEOK-JUN, IT CX MANAGER AT LG ELECTRONICS, SAID, “LG GRAM HAS BEEN LEADING THE ULTRA-LIGHT AND PREMIUM LAPTOP MARKET WITH CONTINUOUS INNOVATION FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS,” AND ADDED, “WE WILL ACTIVELY TARGET THE NEXT-GENERATION AI LAPTOP MARKET BASED ON OUR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITIVENESS IN THE AI FIELD.”
※ PHOTO CAPTION: UPSTAGE (CEO KIM SEONG-HOON), AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE COMPANY, ANNOUNCED ON THE 6TH THAT IT SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING (MOU) FOR PARTNERSHIP IN THE AI BUSINESS WITH LG ELECTRONICS (CEO JO JOO-WAN). THE PHOTO SHOWS UPSTAGE VICE PRESIDENT CHOI HONG-JUN (LEFT) AND LG ELECTRONICS IT CX MANAGER GONG HYEOK-JUN (RIGHT).
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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.
