Gwangju City, Saltlux AI Big Data Center Promotion

Saltlux Co., Ltd. holds the largest number of patents in the AI ​​industry in Korea, promotes the establishment of AI Big Data Center in Gwangju

– Gwangju City, signed a business agreement with Saltlux, a leading artificial intelligence company on the 11th

– Establishment of artificial intelligence big data center, cultivation of professional manpower, and cooperation for start-ups and jobs

– Plan to donate to Gwangju developed with knowledge DB AI learning data accumulated over 20 years

– CEO Kyung-il Lee “The best in creating the world's best artificial intelligence ecosystem in Gwangju” 

– Mayor Lee Yong-seop "Saltlux Management Philosophy Let's make synergy with Gwangju

– National Security Technology Research Institute, IEEE, Tmax Soft, Incore P&P, etc.

On the 11th, the city of Gwangju signed a business agreement with Saltlux Co., Ltd., which holds the largest number of artificial intelligence related patents in Korea, and decided to cooperate with the creation of the Gwangju artificial intelligence business ecosystem, such as establishing the'Saltlux Artificial Intelligence Big Data Center' in the Gwangju artificial intelligence complex. .

Saltlux Co., Ltd. has been focusing on securing artificial intelligence and original technologies for big data for the past 20 years since its foundation, such as machine learning, natural language processing, and big data analysis.

Through this agreement, Gwangju City and Saltlux Co., Ltd. cooperated in establishing an AI big data center and developing related experts to discover data for artificial intelligence research and development, and prepared specialized AI-related jobs such as hiring 2020 people in 100 and 2021 in 200. Plan.

To this end, they decided to set up 'Saltlux Gwangju Office' in March and establish a separate corporation in the second half of the year.

Saltlux Co., Ltd. plans to develop AI data based on 140 billion knowledge bases such as video, voice, image, text, etc., and will donate them to Gwangju for use in AI research and startup activities such as startups.

The main contents of the agreement are ▲ establishment of artificial intelligence big data center ▲ cultivation of professional manpower such as establishment of database ▲ technical and policy advice related to the establishment of artificial intelligence industrial complex in Gwangju and establishment of business platform ▲ support for startup and job creation such as commercialization of artificial intelligence-based products and services, etc. to be.

“The artificial intelligence industry is an area where the world is competing, not regional competition, and it is possible that any city will develop into a global city according to choice and leadership,” said Lee Kyung-il, CEO of Saltlux Co., Ltd. "We will do our best to create the world's best artificial intelligence ecosystem based on Gwangju."

In this regard, Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “On the one hand, we need to prepare for the future of Gwangju while fighting war with the coronavirus.” Today, Saltlux, which has been preparing for the rapidly changing era of artificial intelligence and big data platform service development, said, "Join the city, making Gwangju," and it made a great synergy effect. "

Earlier, Gwangju City signed an agreement to establish the Gwangju Regional Office of the National Security Research Institute (February 2), an agreement to establish an artificial intelligence standard research institute of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Global Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee (February 17), and an agreement to attract TmaxSoft Technology Research Center (March 2).

In addition, incored P&P, an energy big data platform company, which Mayor Yong-seop Lee signed an investment agreement in Silicon Valley in the United States last October, signed an agreement, and completed the establishment of the Energy Artificial Intelligence Research Center in Gwangju on the 5th. The expansion of Gwangju by departments and institutions is forming a rush.

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