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Baek Byung-yeul is a journalist at The Korea Times focused on cultural content, including films and cultural events in South Korea. You can contact him at baekby@koreatimes.co.kr to share your insights.
Samsung Electronics’ flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S24, which is scheduled to be launched early next year, is expected to be able to translate calls in real time using AI technology, according to the company, Thursday.
Wrtn Technologies, a local AI-based portal service provider, recorded over 1 million monthly active users (MAU), proving its growing prowess in the domestic generative AI market, the startup said Thursday.
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its own generative AI model, Samsung Gauss, which is to be incorporated into its Galaxy S24 series in the first half of 2024, as part of the Korean tech giant’s bold move to join the fiercely competitive generative AI race in the global IT industry.
Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) will increase electricity rates for large companies and restructure through asset sales and reduction of workforce as it aims to overcome a debt crisis amounting to around 201 trillion won ($153 billion), its CEO said, Wednesday.
SEJONG – Naver opened its second data center, GAK Sejong, in the special self-governing city of Sejong to lead technological innovation and accelerate business expansion centered on AI and cloud computing, according to the company CEO, Monday.
Generative AI is emerging as an innovative tool that can help solve various problems facing humanity, and through in-depth research, it has the potential to create a better future, said Samsung Electronics’ chip CEO, Tuesday.
Korea unveiled the latest information and communications technologies, including AI semiconductors, quantum computing and the 6G network, being worked on by domestic researchers, according to the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Tuesday, in a bid to drive industrial innovation in the ICT sector.
Samsung SDI CEO Choi Yoon-ho, left, and Martin Lundstedt, president and CEO of Volvo Group, cut a cake together during a ceremony commemorating the fifth anniversary of cooperation between Samsung SDI and Volvo Trucks at the Samsung Group battery affiliate’s plant in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province. Samsung SDI, which has been supplying its battery cells to Volvo Trucks since 2018, said Tuesday that the leaders met last month and discussed more cooperation. Courtesy of Samsung SDI
Samsung, Hyundai Motor, LG and other conglomerates that have been fierce rivals are increasingly collaborating to achieve growth in areas where they can do better together than alone, such as AI, future cars and electric vehicle (EV) batteries, according to industry officials.
Hyundai Motor and Kia continued to grow their electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States, especially EVs based on the automotive group’s EV-dedicated platform E-GMP which have surpassed 100,000 sales there, according to the automotive group, Sunday.