Clevi, an ‘industry game changer’ in AI, develops ‘Ivy’, a platform powered by a large-scale generative AI model
Clevi Co., Ltd. (Clevi) announced that it would launch the open beta service for ‘Ivy’, a large-scale generative AI developed in-house using LLM (large language model) technology.
The company has officially launched its own large-scale generative AI model, ‘Ivy’, using LLM (large language model) technology. As a high-performance, low-cost model, Ivy delivers outstanding effectiveness and performance, and features reasoning, specialised agent capabilities and a high instruction-following rate. Until now, South Korea had failed to achieve notable results in the AI market amid the dominance of OpenAI in the United States and DeepSeek in China. However, by officially launching ‘Ivy’, a large-scale generative AI, domestic startup Clevi has demonstrated that South Korea can also develop AI using its own technological capabilities.
As Ivy provides powerful features including △real-time learning and adaptation △multi-data processing △a code interpreter △expert model generation and △an agent support system, it can be used across a wide range of fields, from individual users to businesses.
CEO Lee Hwan-ho had been interested in the AI field 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 a period of more than two years, starting with pre-training through an efficiently designed training pipeline. According to the company, developing the model cost approximately KRW 1.5 billion, while operating costs average around KRW 10 million per month. This is expected to provide a breakthrough solution to the AI cost challenges facing businesses.
CEO Lee Hwan-ho emphasises that the ‘Ivy’ model offers high efficiency and performance, enabling it to address the issue often cited as a shortcoming of generative AI: ‘PoC is easy, but completion is not.’ This allows companies to reduce labour costs and improve productivity by having AI perform repetitive and inefficient tasks. To minimise AI development costs, CLEVI introduced innovative technology that efficiently manages the development process by applying automated, container-based training node deployment technology. Its significant cost reductions achieved through efficient training pipeline design and optimisation of the communication network between nodes are also noteworthy.
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, distilling and merging those models into a model, and incorporating attention and layer expansion to develop efficient models through merging or improved routing. 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 OpenAI in the United States and DeepSeek in China compete fiercely in AI technology, the domestic large-scale generative AI ‘Ivy’ is attracting industry attention after recording 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, as the use of AI Assistants expands and concerns about personal information leaks and security grow, CLEVI has made the Ivy app platform available for registration with minimal personal information. Public institutions and companies can also install it on-premises to suit their user environments, earning recognition for addressing security concerns.
A company representative said, “The company plans not only to launch Ivy, but also to unveil an agent that will directly intervene, respond and participate in conversations between individual and group users in the future. In addition, we have completed research and development and are preparing to launch services for AI-based active workflow agent “ARI” (Adaptive Reasoning Intelligence), which enables more efficient use of AI in various fields, including education and R&D as well as enterprise-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and for methods of precise object recognition and real-time control in areas such as video content production and medical image analysis. We ask for your continued interest in CLEVI’s activities as it makes an impact in the global AI market through innovative technological capabilities, outstanding performance and cost savings,” he said.
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Source: Global Economic Newspaper (Reporter Lee Seung-won) | https://www.getnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=813209