Cho Chang-je, CEO of GaonAI, Takes Office as 3rd CEO of AIRI
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Cho Chang-je, CEO of GaonAI, recently took office as AIRI’s 3rd CEO.
AIRI is participating in defense AI national projects commissioned by the Ministry of National Defense, as well as projects led by KAIST, Seoul National University, and Ajou University.
GaonAI is advancing groupware, records management solution, and AI businesses, while expanding an Agentic AI platform based on KAON AI.
AIRI, a leading domestic AI research institute in South Korea, was founded about 10 years ago to contribute to the development of AI research and industry in the country, and has maintained a CEO system. Its first CEO was Dr. Kim Jin-hyung, who is regarded as a pioneer in domestic AI research and served as a former KAIST computer science professor and former head of the Software Policy Research Institute.
AIRI’s second CEO was Dr. Kim Young-hwan, who holds a doctorate in computer science from KAIST and previously served as head of KT’s business division and head of external cooperation (executive vice president). Following him, Cho Chang-je, CEO of GaonAI, recently took office as AIRI’s 3rd CEO. Cho holds a doctorate in computer science from KAIST and founded GaonAI in 2000 as a company specializing in Agentic AI platforms and collaboration solutions, continuing to develop groupware and records management solution businesses.
Cho Chang-je, CEO of GaonAI, recently took office as AIRI’s 3rd CEO. AIRI is a leading domestic AI research institute that focuses on implementing practical services based on core AI technologies across a range of industries.
AIRI was selected for 2 consecutive years as a leading company in South Korea’s AI ecosystem at the Korea AI Awards. Building on its track record of advancing AI applications across industry, AIRI is also participating in a national defense AI project commissioned by the Ministry of National Defense.
Since June 2024, AIRI has been participating as a joint research and development institution in the project "Establishment and Operation of a Military-Specific AI Education Program," led by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where it is responsible for education operations, instructor support, and the development of an online education platform. It has also joined this year as a commissioned research and development institution in the "Military-Industry-Academia Cooperation Center" project under the defense AI talent development program led by Seoul National University, and is participating in the same program’s "Military-Industry-Academia Cooperation Center (Pangyo)" led by Ajou University. In addition, AIRI is participating in a region-tailored disaster safety technology development project commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, where it is developing an AI-based wildfire spread prediction and control system, further accumulating experience in AI demonstrations in the public sector.
Under Cho Chang-je’s leadership, GaonAI has carried out groupware, records management solution, and AI businesses for corporations and public institutions, and recently has been focusing on expanding an Agentic AI platform based on "KAON AI." Accordingly, it is broadening the scope of AI agent services into collaboration and groupware, records management, public institution security, and the broader digital work environment. It has also officially applied KAON AI to "BizOffice," a leading domestic SaaS groupware service operated with KT for 26 years, beginning the commercialization of KAON AI.
This inauguration marks the start of a cooperation model that links AIRI’s research and validation capabilities with GaonAI’s large-scale service operation and commercialization capabilities. As AIRI carries out defense and public-sector AI demonstration projects, the combination of GaonAI’s experience in public institution projects is drawing attention to a trend of joint commercialization in the defense and public sectors through the fusion of AIRI’s demonstration projects and GaonAI’s experience, with the goal of building an AI ecosystem through an organic connection between R&D and commercialization.
Cho Chang-je said KAON AI’s core competitiveness lies in 26 years of accumulated know-how in unstructured data processing and expertise in collaboration processes, and added that based on this, he will combine AIRI’s research capabilities with GaonAI’s field-tested commercialization experience to create a structure in which research results lead to outcomes in real industrial and public-sector settings. He also expressed his determination to inherit AIRI’s research assets and experience from the past 10 years, and explained his plan to expand differentiated competitiveness centered on defense AI, AX, public AI, and industry-specific Agentic AI businesses, which have already secured a foundation.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho
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