AI NewsWaveOrchestro Cloud and Four Others to Jointly Develop NPU-Based Sovereign AI Full Stack
Key points
- Orchestro Cloud and four other companies sign memorandum of understanding
- Full stack combines Korean NPUs, LLMs and cloud
- Push to commercialize integrated infrastructure product
Orchestro Cloud signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with FuriosaAI, Upstage, SPK Inc. and Daewon CTS to jointly develop a sovereign AI full-stack product based on neural processing units (NPUs). iNews24, AI Times, Startup Today and Hellot reported that Orchestro Cloud announced this on Oct. 19. Techworld News, Startup Today and Chosun Biz wrote that the agreement was signed on the 16th.
The direction of the cooperation is a combination of Korean technologies. Techworld News reported that the five companies will develop a sovereign AI full-stack product combining Korean AI chips, large language models (LLMs), and cloud and server infrastructure. According to VentureSquare, FuriosaAI's "RNGD," Upstage's "SOLAR" and Orchestro's "CONTRABASS" were mentioned as products to be combined. AI Times cited AI computing, cloud infrastructure, models and inference, and operations as the scope of the five companies' cooperation.
Outlets expressed it differently. iNews24 and Hellot described the cooperation in their headlines as forming a "dream team," while Startup Today put more weight on pushing the integrated infrastructure product toward commercialization. Chosun Biz reported that five Korean AI companies joined hands to develop sovereign AI infrastructure using Korean technology.
Hellot reported that the agreement relates to AI chips, models, cloud platforms, servers and data centers.