[AI Brief] Wrtn, Valued at KRW 1 Trillion, Accelerates IPO Push ... Picks Underwriter This Month

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Among them, Wrtn Technologies (Wrtn) has begun preparing for an IPO. Backed by a corporate valuation of more than KRW 1 trillion and growing overseas sales, Wrtn is moving in earnest to enter the capital market.

Wrtn recently sent an RFP for selecting an IPO underwriter to major domestic securities firms. According to an announcement Wrtn made on the 2nd, this is the starting point for concretizing the listing process.

The target timing for the listing is after next year. Wrtn plans to select an underwriter this month and then finalize the details after the selection.

Driven by sales growth in overseas markets such as North America, Wrtn became the first startup in Korea's AI service sector to be recognized as worth more than KRW 1 trillion, and it also recently secured Series C investment worth KRW 100 billion.

OOC, an AI entertainment content platform in North America, has surpassed monthly sales of KRW 10 billion.

As its business grows, Wrtn is preparing to fulfill its social responsibilities, and it is also preparing to strengthen youth protection policies to ensure safe use of AI.

Details of the strengthened youth protection policy are scheduled to be announced this month, and Lee Se-young, CEO of Wrtn, said the company will pursue greater growth in global markets based on trust in the capital market while making no compromises in building AI services that are safe and trustworthy for users.

Meanwhile, the Korea Software and ICT Industry Association (KOSA), together with domestic AI companies, verified the applicability of Korean-style full-stack AI to Aramco Digital's industrial sites and also completed a demonstration of Korean-style full-stack AI technology for Aramco Digital.

KOSA said on the 2nd that the association's "Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium" completed a PoC for applying full-stack AI to industrial use cases at Aramco Digital. The demonstration was carried out based on the "AI Full-Stack Cooperation MOU" signed last February by KOSA, the Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium, and Aramco Digital.

The Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium is a coalition of domestic companies in AI semiconductors, cloud infrastructure, LLMs, AI application services, and integrated operations management. A total of seven companies participated in this demonstration: MegazoneCloud, FuriosaAI, Rebellions, Upstage, LG AI Research, NC AI, and Euracle. The PoC was conducted with the goal of linking the hardware, model, service, and operations management capabilities of domestic companies based on industrial use cases jointly derived with Aramco Digital.

This PoC was carried out in first and second stages, with the applicability of Korean full-stack AI technology to industrial sites as its validation target. It applied domestic companies' capabilities in semiconductors, infrastructure, models, services, and operations management to industrial use cases set together with Aramco Digital, dividing the verification into first and second stages to assess applicability to real-world industrial settings.

KOSA described the demonstration as a full-stack AI collaboration model that combines domestic AI semiconductors, cloud, LLMs, AI operations management, and industrial application services.

KOSA said the demonstration was an example of confirming the potential to respond to the complex AI demands of overseas industrial sites.

KOSA also said it went beyond applying technology at the level of individual solutions by linking data processing, AI inference, service implementation, and infrastructure operations management into a single structure, and it said this demonstrated the potential of a Korean-style full-stack AI cooperation model.

The photo caption reads NC AI. NC AI announced on the 2nd that it officially launched its generative AI audio platform, "Varco Sound." "Varco Sound" is an integrated solution for automatically generating and editing individual audio for content production such as games, video, and animation, equipped with an AI agent that can handle everything from sound generation to editing on its own.

NC AI said it actively incorporated feedback from domestic and overseas content producers and sound designers into the development of the official version after opening beta service in January. As a result, the official version improves overall audio generation performance and adds new functions that reflect the needs of real-world creative work, boosting practical usability, it said.

"Varco Sound" has unveiled a new feature called "Sound Agent." At the center of this update are the "Sound Agent," which lets users control sound production tools in natural language, and an upgraded core sound generation model. The "Sound Agent" handles natural-language conversational execution across the generation and editing tools in Varco Sound, and after a user enters a text description, the agent understands the intent and automatically activates the appropriate function. This makes sound work easier for beginners such as planners and developers without specialized knowledge.

The upgraded model analyzes the movement and situation in input video using AI and generates multiple event components such as Foley, sound effects, and ambience. In this process, it does not combine all sounds into a single file; the output format is separated multitrack. As a result, users can keep or replace only the tracks they need and can directly adjust control over the final output.

Support time for audio generation has also been expanded. The existing generation limit was up to 20 seconds, but the expanded generation limit has increased to 60 seconds. In addition, it has set support for input video of up to 120 seconds as its target range and plans to improve the service to handle longer-form content production.

Asiana IDT has begun targeting the industrial site safety management market by advancing the capabilities of its AI industrial safety and health platform, "Plan to Do."

Asiana IDT announced on the 2nd that it will participate in the "2026 Korea Safety Industry Expo" to be held at BEXCO Exhibition Hall 1 in Busan. According to the photo caption, an Asiana IDT official will introduce the latest features of the AI industrial safety and health platform Plan to Do through participation in the "2026 Korea Industrial Safety Expo."

At this exhibition, Asiana IDT plans to unveil the latest version of Plan to Do and introduce ways to upgrade the industrial safety and health management system to prevent major industrial accidents.

Plan to Do is a cloud-based AI industrial safety and health platform developed by Asiana IDT. It is offered as a subscription service (SaaS), allowing small and midsize workplaces to adopt it without an initial investment burden.

Asiana IDT said Plan to Do is used for workers at a range of industrial sites, including public-sector facilities, manufacturing, construction, and ports. It operates as a mobile device-based customized safety inspection system, and the company expects it to help prevent safety accidents.

At the expo, Asiana IDT will showcase new safety management features alongside upgrades to existing functions. It has added a new "partner company (subcontractor) integrated monitoring" feature and a "weather information-based safety guidance" feature, and it plans to demonstrate these new functions at the expo.

By linking an AI video analysis solution, Asiana IDT is expanding the service in a form that combines detection of abnormal conditions at industrial sites with Plan to Do's AI safety officer automatic analysis. Plan to Do's AI safety officer presents risk factors and mitigation measures, and the analysis results are automatically recorded and managed.

Based on these capabilities, Asiana IDT plans to introduce its "video-based safety control service package." At the expo, it will present a safety management service that encompasses upgrades to existing features, new features, integration with an AI video analysis solution, and an automated analysis, recording, and management system.

Nwin AI announced on the 2nd that it had signed a supply contract for a "spirits-focused AI analysis platform" with Suntory Global Spirits Korea, and said it will supply a specialized AI analysis platform to Suntory Global Spirits Korea. The collaboration is being pursued against the backdrop of diversifying spirits consumption trends, and the platform uses social data and a knowledge graph to conduct precise analysis of consumer trends and consumer insights. The purpose of the collaboration is AI-based precision analysis of consumer insights.

The platform is designed to apply Nwin AI's F&B-focused AI analysis technology to the supply platform and perform AI quantitative and qualitative analysis on large-scale unstructured data from various channels, including social media. Through this, it aims to help identify rapidly changing spirits consumption trends and also support a multifaceted understanding of lifestyle patterns.

To that end, the platform is built on ontology-based technology specialized for the spirits industry and performs standard concept normalization of neologisms, abbreviations, and technical terms. It also uses a knowledge-graph-based inference engine to support systematic identification of the relationships among complex consumer responses.

Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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