Kim Yoo-won, CEO of Naver Cloud, stated at the Team Naver Integrated Conference DANDI 25, held at the COEX Grand Ballroom on the morning of the 6th, “AI is no longer a realm of research but a technological infrastructure that dictates industrial competitiveness,” adding, “We will turn the AI transformation of industries into a reality through our data, infrastructure, and technology.”
Naver Cloud is presenting the direction of “Sovereign AI 2.0,” which extends beyond AI independence to become industry-centered, based on the full-stack AI capabilities accumulated over the years. “Sovereign AI 2.0” is a concept that enhances national competitiveness by expanding AI across industries and everyday life.
Since unveiling “HyperClovaX,” the world’s first non-English Large Language Model (LLM) in 2023, Naver has successively released lightweight models, inference models, and open-source models. Naver Cloud plans to evolve “HyperClovaX” to provide a variety of lineups necessary for industry-specific AI innovation, ranging from large models for cloud use to lightweight models for physical AI.
Naver Cloud is set to complete a next-generation AI framework capable of multimodal recognition and generation beyond text, including voice, image, map, and sensor data, offering optimized models flexibly according to the needs of various industries. Additionally, for companies seeking secure operation of data and AI, Naver Cloud plans to introduce an upgraded version of its private cloud, “Neurocloud,” in June next year.
Naver Cloud is internalizing physical AI technology to ensure AI technology operates effectively in actual industrial settings. Since 2016, Naver has embarked on research in robotics and autonomous driving and evolved this into foundation model-based physical AI by 2021.
Based on these technologies and infrastructure, Naver Cloud plans to expand the vertical AI ecosystem. In collaboration with major industrial companies, such as those in shipbuilding and energy, it aims to support AI-based process operation, equipment management, and quality prediction across the entire manufacturing process to help quickly establish optimized technology in industrial settings.
Furthermore, Naver Cloud is actively expanding technological accessibility to sectors where AI benefits are difficult to reach, contributing to the social dissemination and inclusive growth of AI by applying it to healthcare, rural, and welfare sectors such as assistance for people with developmental disabilities, elderly care, and agricultural AI.
CEO Kim stated, “AI is a technology that transcends industrial limits to open new possibilities,” adding, “Naver Cloud will combine hyperscale AI infrastructure with physical AI to practically support industrial innovation and open an era of AI that everyone can trust.”