South Korea’s Naver Launches Generative AI Services

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean web big Naver unveiled on Thursday its personal generative synthetic intelligence (AI) software, becoming a member of the frenzy across the new expertise initiated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot late final yr.

Regardless of the hype across the burgeoning expertise and billions of {dollars} of funding, most corporations and builders have but to monetise the expertise.

Naver stated its AI product, named HyperCLOVA X, will present generative AI-driven searches for customers in addition to new customised providers for enterprise purchasers.

HyperCLOVA X has a set of instruments together with chatbot utility CLOVA X geared toward enhancing net search, on-line buying and navigation providers, and a generative AI operate Cue that may be plugged into its search engine.

Naver will begin beta providers for CLOVA X from Thursday, and for Cue in September, in accordance with the corporate.

Naver has stated it’s collectively creating with Samsung Electronics new chip options that might be smaller and extra environment friendly to help its AI expertise improvement.

The corporate plans to open a brand new information centre for the HyperCLOVA X providers in November, Naver stated on Thursday.

“We’re able to face a brand new transformation known as generative AI,” Naver chief govt Choi Soo-yeon stated in a press release.

Whereas it is behind frontrunners resembling Microsoft-backed OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google, Naver and its home rivals wish to faucet area of interest markets that haven’t but been addressed by U.S. and Chinese language tech giants.

Naver is seeking to develop localised AI functions for nations with political sensitivities within the Center East in addition to for non-English talking nations and areas, resembling Japan and Southeast Asia.

(Reporting by Ju-min Park; Modifying by Miyoung Kim and Sam Holmes)

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