Mar 28, 2023

S.Korea's Elice, Furiosa AI to develop training for AI semiconductor talent Elice will use its AI tutorial service and Furiosa AI its application and verification of NPU for data centers By South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) digital education provider Elice on Tuesday said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the AI semiconductor company Furiosa AI on business cooperation in such chips.┬á Through this agreement, both companies will cooperate in pursuing projects to expand and improve utilization of Furiosa AI's chips, promote such semiconductors' proof of concept and plan training to develop specialists in AI chip design. Specifically, the plan is to apply to and verify Furiosa AI's neural processing unit in Elice's general business technology-based AI tutorial service and AI data center provided as infrastructure as a service, or IaaS. Both companies will also develop a course on human resource development for AI semiconductors. Launched in 2015 by Ph.D. students from the AI lab of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Elice provides a digital education practice platform that offers customized education to some 1,000 institutions like 18 companies like those of conglomerates SK, LG, Hyundai Motor and CJ and universities, governments and public institutions. Beyond corporate education, the company has expanded its services to coding tests and cloud in emerging as a specialist in digital transformation. Furiosa AI was founded in 2017 by its CEO June Baik, a former semiconductor design engineer at Samsung Electronics, and chip engineers from big tech giants like Google and Amazon. At the time of launch, Furiosa AI received investment from D2SF, a startup investment organization of South Korea's top web portal Naver. "With the rapid rise of AI technology, we must now build related infrastructure and develop talented personnel,ÔÇØ Elice CEO Kim Jae-won said. ÔÇ£We will contribute to the growth of the country's AI semiconductor talent." ÔÇ£We will strive to foster AI talent and develop into a competitive AI semiconductor company on the global market,ÔÇØ Furiosa AI CEO June Baik added. Write to Da Eun Choi at max@hankyung.com 2 Min read 2 Min read