Korean AI industry 'game changer' CLEVI develops its own super-scale generative AI-based platform 'Ivy'
CLEVI Corporation (Clevi) announced that it would launch an open beta service for 'Ivy', its own super-scale generative AI developed using LLM (large language model) technology.
Australian start-up CLEVI has officially launched 'Ivy', its own super-scale generative AI model developed using LLM (large language model) technology. As a high-performance, low-cost model, Ivy delivers outstanding effectiveness and performance, with reasoning, specialised agent capabilities and a high instruction-following rate. Until now, South Korea had not achieved notable results in the AI market amid the dominance of US-based OpenAI and China's DeepSeek. However, the official launch of the super-scale generative AI 'Ivy' by South Korean start-up CLEVI has demonstrated that South Korea can also develop AI using its own technology.
Ivy offers powerful capabilities including △real-time learning and adaptation △multimodal data processing △a code interpreter △expert model generation and △an agent support system, meaning it can be used across a wide range of fields, from individual users to enterprises.
CLEVI CEO Lee Hwan-ho had been interested in AI and continued research and development even before establishing the company in 2022. Despite the company's limited financial resources after its establishment, he successfully developed its own model over more than two years through an efficiently designed training pipeline, starting with pre-training. According to the company, the model development cost approximately KRW 1.5 billion, while operating costs average around KRW 10 million per month. This is expected to provide a breakthrough that can resolve the AI cost challenges facing businesses.
CLEVI CEO Lee Hwan-ho emphasises that the ‘Ivy’ model's high efficiency and performance can resolve the problem often identified as a shortcoming of generative AI: 'PoCs are easy, but completion is not'. This means businesses can reduce labour costs and improve productivity by having AI perform repetitive and inefficient tasks on their behalf.
CLEVI has introduced innovative technology that efficiently manages the development process by applying automated, container-based training node deployment technology to minimise AI development costs. It is also notable for significantly reducing costs through the efficient design of training pipelines and optimisation of communication networks between nodes.
The ‘Ivy’ model is characterised by the development of a Mixture of models for efficient model training and operation. It was developed by creating small models, then distilling and merging those models into a model. It was also integrated with attention and layer expansion to merge models, and with routing improvements to develop more efficient models. Its support for a wide range of languages worldwide, in addition to English and Korean, through multilingual training and embedding optimisation is also noteworthy.
In particular, as Open AI in the United States and DeepSeek in China compete vigorously in AI technology, the home-grown, large-scale generative AI ‘Ivy’ is attracting industry attention after achieving higher scores than the two existing models in various benchmark tests (△AIME 2024: 81% △MATH-500: 98.6 △SWE-BENCH: 51.1 △MMLU: 91.2).
In addition, amid growing concerns about personal information leaks and security as the use of AI Assistants expands, CLEVI has made the Ivy app available with a platform that allows users to sign up using minimal personal information. Public institutions and businesses have also evaluated it positively for resolving security issues by supporting on-premises installation tailored to the user environment.
A CLEVI representative said, “Our company will not stop at the launch of Ivy. In the future, we plan to release an agent that directly intervenes, responds and participates in conversations between individual and group users. We have also completed the research and development of an AI-based active workflow agent “ARI” (Adaptive Reasoning Intelligence), which enables more efficient use of AI not only in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems but also in various fields such as education and R&D, as well as methods for precise object recognition and real-time control in video content production and medical image analysis, and are preparing to launch these services. We ask for your continued interest in CLEVI’s activities as it makes its mark on the global AI market through innovative technology, outstanding performance and cost savings.”
Meanwhile, Ivy (‘Ivy’) is registered on the Google Play Store, and Ivy can also be downloaded and used from the company’s official website and the Ivy download page.
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Source: Daily Economy (Reporter Oh Seok-ju) | https://www.kdpress.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=136384