Clevi is a company that offers a variety of AI solutions, demonstrating its technological prowess in fields such as coding automation, physical AI, drone-based situational awareness, digital twin and teleoperation, and learning data based on synchronization. Through its generative AI model 'Ivy', it has enabled the adoption of high-performance, low-cost AI, and has secured security reliability by supporting sign-ups with minimal personal information and on-premises installation. The goal is to provide a platform where solutions can be implemented with just imagination, without the need for specialized knowledge.

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Clevi CEO Lee Hwan-ho / Photo. Robot Technology

Foundation Model-Based Solutions

Clevi is an AI specialist company that has developed a foundation model with 14 trillion parameters, boasting technological capabilities comparable to global big tech companies such as OpenAI. CEO Lee Hwan-ho said, “Under the slogan 'Once Fiction Now Reality', our goal is to create the foundation based on imagination and ideas.” The key is to provide a platform where users can turn their imagination into reality without specialized knowledge.

Clevi provides solutions in various fields based on its own foundation model. A representative example is its advanced coding agent, which not only generates simple code but also automates the entire process of building and deploying a website to a server according to user requests. CEO Lee said, “It is a technology suitable for Vibe Coding, and many developers were impressed by its performance during demonstrations.”

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Visitors are experiencing Clevi's coding agent firsthand. / Photo. Robot Technology

Clevi's AI technology is also making a mark in the fields of robotics and drones. In the field of Physical AI, if a person demonstrates a specific action about 50 times, the platform uses reinforcement learning to enable the robot to act autonomously. Previously, thousands to tens of thousands of repetitions were required, but Clevi has reduced this to 30-50 times and can proceed without direct developer intervention. In addition, by using its internal image editing AI to generate virtual data, it provides an efficient learning environment without the hassle of collecting real data.

In the drone field, it recognizes specific situations such as disasters and accidents, and analyzes situations using AI prediction and camera vision. This allows it to determine possible incidents and response methods, enabling quick and efficient crisis response.

Digital Twin and Teleoperation Technology

Clevi's technological prowess also stands out in the digital twin domain. By building virtual environments, it is possible to conduct tests that are difficult or impossible in real environments, and based on this, data learned through teleoperation and synchronization can be applied and augmented, enabling demonstrations of humanoid robots. By equipping large language models (LLMs) as on-device AI, it has implemented robots that can judge situations and act like humans, and has developed solutions to deploy robots in hazardous environments such as radioactive zones instead of humans. Ultimately, the goal is to develop robots that can autonomously judge and act on commands that have not been trained.

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Industrial AI EXPO Clevi booth panorama / Photo. Robot Technology

They have also solved the problem of AI development and operation costs. The generative AI model 'Ivy', launched in March 2025, is a high-performance, low-cost model that has reduced the burden of AI adoption for companies with a development cost of about 1.5 billion KRW and an average monthly operating cost of 10 million KRW. Ivy provides powerful features such as real-time learning, multi-data processing, code interpreter, and expert model generation, and has scored highly in benchmark tests with Open AI, DeepSeek, and others.

Meanwhile, Clevi has also secured reliability in terms of security. To reduce concerns about personal information leakage due to the expansion of AI assistant usage, the Ivy app allows sign-up with minimal personal information, and public institutions or companies can build security systems tailored to their environment through on-premises installation.

CEO Lee Hwan-ho emphasized, “Ultimately, Clevi's goal is to build a platform,” and added, “We will provide a platform where anyone can create their own solution with imagination, even without specialized knowledge.”

Reporter Lim Seung-hwan

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