CLEVI is a company offering a range of AI solutions, having demonstrated its technical capabilities in various fields, including coding automation, physical AI, drone-based situational awareness, digital twins, and training data based on teleoperation and synchronisation. It has enabled the adoption of high-performance, low-cost AI through its generative AI model ‘Ivy’, while also securing confidence in its security through registration based on minimal personal information and support for on-premises installation. Its goal is to provide a platform that enables users to implement solutions using nothing more than their imagination, without specialised knowledge.
CLEVI CEO Lee Hwan-ho / Photo: Robot Technology
Solutions based on foundation models
CLEVI is an AI specialist that has developed a foundation model with 1.4 trillion parameters, possessing technical capabilities that compare favourably with those of global technology giants such as OpenAI. CLEVI CEO Lee Hwan-ho said, “Under the slogan ‘Once Fiction Now Reality’, our goal is to create the foundation that turns imagination and ideas into reality.” The key is to provide a platform that enables users to turn their imagination into reality without specialised knowledge.
CLEVI provides solutions across various fields based on its own foundation model. A representative example is its advanced Coding Agent, which goes beyond simple code generation to provide automated functionality that builds websites from start to finish and deploys them to servers according to users’ requests. CEO Lee Hwan-ho said, “It is technology suited to Vibe Coding, and many developers were impressed by its performance during the demonstration.”
A visitor is trying CLEVI’s Coding Agent for themselves. / Photo: Robot Technology
CLEVI’s AI technology is also making its mark in robotics and drones. In the field of Physical AI, when a person demonstrates a specific action approximately 50 times, the platform uses reinforcement learning to enable a robot to act autonomously. Previously, thousands or tens of thousands of repetitions were required for training, but CLEVI has reduced this to 30–50 demonstrations, and the process can be carried out without direct developer intervention. In addition, by generating synthetic data using its in-house image-editing AI, CLEVI provides an efficient training environment without the inconvenience of collecting real-world data.
In the drone sector, specific situations such as disasters and calamities are identified, and the situation is analysed using AI predictions and camera vision. This makes it possible to determine potential incidents and response methods, enabling rapid and efficient crisis response.
Digital Twin and Teleoperation Technology
CLEVI’s technological capabilities also stand out in the field of digital twins. By building virtual environments, tests that are difficult or impossible to conduct in real-world environments can be performed. Based on this, data learned through Teleoperation and synchronisation was applied and augmented, making it possible to demonstrate a humanoid robot. A Large Language Model (LLM) was installed as on-device AI to enable it to assess situations and act like a human, and this was used to develop a solution that deploys robots instead of people in dangerous environments such as radioactive areas. Ultimately, the goal is to develop robots that can autonomously assess and act on commands they have not been trained on.
View of the CLEVI booth at the Industrial AI EXPO / Photo. Robotics Technology
CLEVI has also addressed the issue of AI development and operating costs. Launched in March 2025, the generative AI model ‘Ivy’ is a high-performance, low-cost model that reduces the burden of AI adoption for businesses, with development costs of approximately KRW 1.5 billion and average monthly operating costs of KRW 10 million. Ivy provides powerful features such as real-time learning, multi-data processing, a code interpreter and expert model generation, and recorded high scores in benchmark tests against Open AI, DeepSeek and others.
Meanwhile, CLEVI has also secured reliability in terms of security. To reduce concerns about personal data breaches arising from the expanded use of AI assistants, the Ivy app allows users to sign up with only the minimum personal information, while public institutions and businesses can establish security systems suited to their environments through on-premises installation.
CEO Lee Hwan-ho said, “Ultimately, CLEVI’s goal is to create a platform,” emphasising that “we will provide a platform where people can create their own solutions through imagination, even without specialist knowledge.”
Reporter Lim Seung-hwan
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