AI industry ‘game changer’ Clevi develops ‘Ivy’, a platform based on ultra-large-scale generative AI
Clevi Co., Ltd. announced that it is launching the open beta service for ‘Ivy’, its own ultra-large-scale generative AI developed using LLM (large language model) technology.
The company has officially launched its own ultra-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, specialized 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 OpenAI in the United States and DeepSeek in China. However, the official launch of the ultra-large-scale generative AI ‘Ivy’ by Canadian startup Clevi has demonstrated that South Korea can also develop AI using its own technological capabilities.
With powerful features including △real-time learning and adaptation △multi-data processing △a code interpreter △expert model generation and △an agent support system, Ivy can be used in a wide range of fields, from individual users to enterprises.
CEO Hwan-ho Lee had been interested in AI and continued research and development even before founding 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, 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 that companies are facing.
CEO Lee Hwan-ho emphasizes that the ‘Ivy’ model’s high efficiency and performance can resolve the issue identified as a drawback of generative AI: “PoC is easy, but completion is not.” Through this, businesses can reduce labour costs and improve productivity by having AI perform repetitive and inefficient tasks. To minimize AI development costs, CLEVI introduced innovative technology that efficiently manages the development process by applying automated, container-based training node deployment technology. It is also noteworthy that costs were significantly reduced through the efficient design of training pipelines and optimization of communication networks between nodes.
The ‘Ivy’ model is characterized by its development of a Mixture of models for efficient model training and operation. It was developed by creating small models, distilling and combining them into a model, and incorporating attention and layer expansion to combine models or develop efficient models through improved routing. Its support for a wide range of languages worldwide—not only English and Korean—through multilingual training and embedding optimization is also notable.
In particular, as OpenAI in the United States and DeepSeek in China compete fiercely in AI technology, the domestic large-scale generative AI model ‘Ivy’ is attracting attention in the industry by 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 concerns about personal information leaks and security have grown with the increased use of AI Assistants, CLEVI made the Ivy app available so that users can register with minimal personal information. Public institutions and businesses have also been praised for resolving security issues by supporting on-premises installation tailored to their user environments.
A company representative said, “The company will not stop at the launch of Ivy; it plans to unveil an agent that will directly intervene, respond and participate in conversations between individual and group users in the future. In addition to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, the company has also completed research and development on AI-based proactive workflow agent “ARI” (Adaptive Reasoning Intelligence), which enables more efficient use of AI in various fields, including education and R&D, as well as methods for precise object recognition and real-time control in areas such as video content creation and medical image analysis, and is preparing to launch these services. We ask for your continued interest in CLEVI’s efforts to make an impact in the global AI market through innovative technology, outstanding performance and cost savings.”
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Source: Global Economy Newspaper (Reporter Lee Seung-won) | https://www.getnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=813209