[AI Brief] Thinkforbl Collaborates With Swiss Certification Body on AI Reliability Business, Pushes European Expansion

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This article focuses on Thinkforbl's AI reliability business collaboration and its push to expand into the European market.

The people in the photo are Thinkforbl CEO Park Ji-hwan and Vincent Franck Sabo, CEO of CERTX AG.

Thinkforbl is pursuing cooperation with Swiss certification specialist CERTX, with the goal of strengthening AI reliability certification and evaluation capabilities and expanding into the European market.

Thinkforbl signed an MOU with CERTX AG in Fribourg, Switzerland, on the 4th and announced it on the 7th. The MOU calls for mutual exchange and cooperation on joint R&D and business development related to AI reliability.

The MOU establishes a framework for cooperation across the broader field of AI reliability. The two companies will work together on certification, evaluation, testing, and consulting in AI reliability, with the goal of spreading related products and services. To that end, they will share technical, methodological, tool-related, experiential, and specialized capabilities in AI reliability; technical, methodological, tool-related, experiential, and specialized capabilities for evaluating AI systems; technical, methodological, tool-related, experiential, and specialized capabilities related to data fidelity certification and testing; and technical, methodological, tool-related, experiential, and specialized capabilities related to standards and regulatory compliance.

The two companies will jointly identify Korea, Switzerland, Europe, and other international joint R&D programs as well as government and private-sector projects, and will form consortia when needed to carry them out jointly on a consortium basis. They will also combine their specialized capabilities to jointly develop service models for AI system reliability evaluation and verification, AI system safety evaluation and verification, data fidelity evaluation and verification, bias evaluation and verification, robustness evaluation and verification, performance evaluation and verification, and certification-readiness evaluation and verification.

They will also concretize cooperation in the form of joint services or consulting models, and will devise ways to put them into practice by linking the products, tools, and platforms each company already has. In addition, they will support mutual expansion into the Korean and European markets, and jointly promote seminars, workshops, training programs, customer meetings, and technical presentations in the fields of AI reliability, certification, evaluation, regulatory compliance, and related technologies.

Wonderful announced on the 7th that it had completed a Series C funding round. The investment was worth USD 550 million, and the post-money valuation was $5 billion.

Wonderful is pushing to expand its enterprise AI OS business. The company plans to use the new funding to accelerate product enhancement and expand dedicated teams for global on-site deployment.

The move is aimed at meeting demand for enterprise-wide AI transformation. With the newly raised capital, the company plans to speed up product development and actively respond to surging demand for its enterprise AI OS.

Since securing Series B funding in March last year, Wonderful has expanded its business to more than 35 markets worldwide. Its global workforce has also grown to about 650 employees.

In the process, the platform has evolved into a fully AI-optimized operating system for enterprise environments. Wonderful plans to deploy the Series C funds as an extension of that expansion, continuing product development and the growth of its global on-site organization.

Ba Winkler, co-founder and CEO of Wonderful, said companies need a common AI foundation. He cited the idea that value accumulates over time as more organizations and tasks use it.

Ba Winkler also said the investment will help support more companies in their enterprise-wide AI transformation.

emro said on the 7th that it signed a contract to supply its SRM SaaS solution, Cadensia, to a European energy solutions company, Company A, through Samsung SDS's overseas subsidiary. The purpose of the contract is to implement Company A's core procurement processes based on Cadensia.

emro said the deal gives it its first customer in Europe, after North America, and that it is now moving to fully target the European market. It also plans to expand local sales efforts after recently signing a solution supply contract with Samsung SDS's overseas subsidiary.

emro said it will supply Company A with its in-house procurement functions. The scope includes new product development, quality planning and management, and sourcing.

Along with the supply, emro will also provide its "AI-based BOM (bill of materials) automatic comparison and analysis" function. This function has previously been applied to the procurement systems of global PC and server manufacturers.

With this deal, emro has secured its first customer in Europe. Europe, along with North America, is a key target market for the company's global business, and emro currently has three customers in North America.

Based on the reference from Company A, emro plans to accelerate sales to local European companies. An emro official said the company plans to use this contract as a catalyst to expand its overseas business in Europe and Asia and strengthen its position in the global SRM solution market.

(Photo: SelectStar) SelectStar will hold a joint seminar titled "Practical Responses to the AI Basic Act." SelectStar plans to present practical strategies for companies and public institutions to respond to the enforcement of the AI Basic Act.

The seminar will cover responses to the full range of AI adoption and operations, including regulation, security, AI governance, safety, and reliability verification.

SelectStar, Korea Management Association Consulting (KMAC), and Yulchon LLC announced the joint seminar on the 7th. The seminar will be held on the 17th at Posco Tower in Samseong, Seoul. The event is titled "The AI Basic Act: Are You Prepared? - Practical Response Strategies from Regulatory Change to Governance and Verification."

The seminar was designed to present ways for companies and public institutions to respond to AI adoption and operation after the enforcement of the AI Basic Act. Its purpose is to address the preparations needed when companies and public institutions actually introduce and operate AI.

The seminar will go beyond explaining laws and institutions to include changes in the regulatory and security environment, the establishment of operating systems, and assessments of AI service safety and reliability. It will cover the full range of practical issues, from explaining institutional changes to building internal operating systems and methods for verifying AI services.

At SelectStar, Lee Hyun-taek, head of the Global DB team, will give a presentation on the topic "Technical Execution Strategies That Prove Safety Beyond Governance." Lee will introduce a technical perspective on confirming and verifying whether AI services meet safety and reliability standards, and will cover AI evaluation criteria, data design measures, red-teaming-based vulnerability checks, analysis of evaluation results, identification of risk factors, and improvements and re-evaluation. Through this, he will present technical execution measures to secure AI safety and reliability for companies.

Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gab
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