NAVER CLOUD Partners with Intel for Joint Research in Building an AI chip Ecosystem
NAVER CLOUD Partners with Intel for Joint Research in Building an AI chip Ecosystem
NAVER CLOUD Partners with Intel for Joint Research in Building an AI chip Ecosystem
- Through joint research with domestic academia and startups, NAVER CLOUD and Intel will develop software and engage in Industry-Academia research projects based on ‘Gaudi’
- Intel acknowledges NAVER CLOUD’s exceptional hyperscale generative AI capabilities and proposes cooperation
- This initiative is expected to revitalize domestic AI research and expand the AI Ecosystem, which has stagnated due to recent challenges in securing AI chips and cost burdens
- This collaboration aims to expand AI ecosystem centered on HyperCLOVA X and secure diversity of AI chip Ecosystem.
April 11, 2024
NAVER CLOUD has partnered with Intel to establish a new AI chip ecosystem based on 'Gaudi' through joint research with domestic academia and startups. Details of this collaboration were unveiled during CEO Pat Gelsinger's keynote at 'Intel Vision 2024' in Phoenix, U.S. on the 8th, where the agreement between the two companies was signed.
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(Image) NAVER CLOUD and Intel signed a joint research agreement to build an AI chip SW ecosystem.
(From left to right) Lee Dongsoo, Executive Director of Hyperscale AI Efficiency at NAVER CLOUD, Ha Jung Woo, Executive Director of the AI Innovation Center at NAVER CLOUD,
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and Justin Hotard, Senior Vice President and Head of Data Center and AI Group at Intel
Through the provision of IT infrastructure based on Gaudi, Intel's AI accelerator chip, NAVER CLOUD and Intel will support domestic startups and universities in conducting AI research. This collaboration will involve operating various software development and industry-academia research projects centered around Gaudi. Additionally, the two companies will establish the AI Joint Research Center (NICL: NAVER Cloud-Intel-Co-Lab), which will engage more than 20 domestic research labs and startups, including KAIST, Seoul National University, and POSTECH.
NAVER CLOUD emphasized that the AI resource environment for domestic startups and schools has become extremely challenging due to recent burdens related to purchasing AI chips. In response to this situation. NAVER CLOUD proposed a joint research approach to Intel to revitalize domestic AI research and strengthen the diversity of the AI chip ecosystem. Through this collaborations Intel will verify the performance of 'Gaudi' and secure the software, while NAVER CLOUD leads the research and expand the AI ecosystem centered on Hyper CLOVA X.
Kim Yu-won, CEO of NAVER CLOUD, explained the background of the collaboration and emphasized, "There are not many companies in the world that have developed and operated a hyperscale large language model (LLM) 'From Scratch' like NAVER CLOUD. Furthermore, NAVER CLOUD stands out globally as the sole company, apart from big tech companies in the US and China, capable not only of proposing optimization technology for efficient operation of high-cost LLMs but also of offering solutions for them.
“For the past 25 years, NAVER has been providing users with alternative choices in internet market, including search engine, cloud services, and generative AI, which are dominated by global big-tech companies. This diversity represents the one of the most important core values which NAVER has pursued.” added Kim. “In this context, securing the diversity in the AI ecosystem is very meaningful,” he emphasized.
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(Image) Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, and Ha Jung Woo, Executive Director of the AI Innovation Center at NAVER CLOUD,
discussed their collaboration at the ‘Intel Vision 2024’ event.
Meanwhile, Ha Jung Woo, Executive Director of the AI Innovation Center at NAVER CLOUD, attended a keynote speech by Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, at 'Intel Vision 2024' and discussed the collaboration between the two companies. They committed to collaborating not only to expand the AI chip ecosystem but also to establish a commercial cloud. Additionally, he mentioned that NAVER CLOUD plans to conduct a test of 'Gaudi 2' to apply it to its services.
