[AI Brief] EASTSOFT, K Monster Group Expand Global Business for ‘Perso AI’
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EASTSOFT and K Monster Group signed an MOU to expand the Perso AI business.
Fourth Industrial Avenue gave a special lecture on "Display Industry Innovation Strategy Through AX Transformation" at the "1st 2026 AI·Display Forum."
Selectstar, Enerzai and Kolon Benit also announced news on AI and content safety verification, on-device AI agents and a Cloudera partner award.
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The photo shows EASTSOFT CEO Jung Sang-won and K Monster Group CEO Lee Ji-heon. EASTSOFT is pushing to expand the domestic and overseas business of its AI avatar-based service, "Perso AI."
The service expansion targets three pillars: conversational AI, global dubbing, and video production. EASTSOFT plans to accelerate the application of its core services across various industries and secure more global customers.
To that end, EASTSOFT and K Monster Group signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to expand the Perso AI business, and EASTSOFT announced the signing on the 11th.
At the signing ceremony, the two companies agreed to cooperate on finding new customers and business opportunities centered on Perso AI, sales and marketing for potential customers, analyzing and applying customer requirements and market information, and participating in exhibitions, seminars and promotions.
Perso AI is an AI avatar-based generative service powered by EASTSOFT's AI technology, and the company said it has value in delivering new experiences across a range of industries and in daily life.
EASTSOFT CEO Jung Sang-won said Perso AI is being applied to industry in various forms, from communication environments to video generation, and said the company will use the agreement to identify diverse global market conditions and needs, secure concrete business opportunities, and strengthen Perso AI's global foundation. Kim Dong-hwan, CEO of Fourth Industrial Avenue, delivered a special lecture at the '2026 AI-DISPLAY Forum.' Photo courtesy of Fourth Industrial Avenue.
Fourth Industrial Avenue presented a manufacturing innovation strategy for the display industry’s AX transformation. The company announced the details on the 11th.
On the 10th, Fourth Industrial Avenue gave a special lecture titled "Display Industry Innovation Strategy Through AX Transformation" at the "1st 2026 AI·Display Forum" held at the Chungnam Techno Park Display Innovation Process Center in Cheonan.
In the lecture, Fourt Industrial Avenue CEO Kim Dong-hwan described the global shift in paradigms as a process that moves from deep learning to generative AI and then to agentic AI, which autonomously analyzes and executes complex business processes.
Kim also shared examples of practical application in industrial settings. He introduced cases linking scattered technical documents, equipment manuals and quality data from manufacturing sites with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as on-site knowledge question answering, automation of report and technical document drafts, and agentic AI that autonomously performs repetitive tasks. Fourth Industrial Avenue emphasized manufacturing innovation based on agentic AI.
Kim stressed that the goal for AI in manufacturing sites should not be limited to document automation and question answering. He said quality and equipment data analysis should be combined to support forecasting and decision-making, and that this needs to be connected to practical "business optimization."
As a deployment approach, Kim proposed a domain-specific small language model (sLLM). He also suggested combining internal corporate data, building RAG on an internal secure network, and introducing agentic workflows designed directly by engineers in the field.
Selectstar said on the 11th that it had disclosed a case of verifying the safety of AI and intellectual property (IP)-combined content. Selectstar said the announcement was made together with The Pinkfong Company.
The presentation took place at "Try Everything 2026," a global startup festival held on the 10th at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul. Cho Se-yeop, team leader of Selectstar's Platform Sales Team, led a presentation session at "Try Everything 2026."
In its presentation, Selectstar covered AI and IP-combined content and safety verification cases. Multilingual evaluation and red teaming were applied in the process. Photo courtesy of Selectstar.
Selectstar Platform Sales Team leader Cho Se-yeop said that with "responsive content" that interacts with visitors in real time, it is difficult to confirm all results in advance. Accordingly, he explained that "responsive content" requires a different verification method from conventional ones and must be reviewed before release. He added that AI's safe and appropriate responses to unexpected questions during operation should also be continuously evaluated.
Selectstar applied its AI reliability evaluation platform, "Datumo Platform," to Baby Shark AI characters. Through this, it said it verified conversational safety, worldview consistency and multilingual conversation quality.
Selectstar also emphasized the importance of red teaming. Red teaming refers to advance exploration of AI vulnerabilities from an attacker's perspective, and Selectstar Platform Sales Team leader Cho Se-yeop explained that even if AI rejects direct harmful questions, safety mechanisms can be bypassed through role-play, foreign languages or indirect expressions. He added that vulnerabilities need to be found through repeated attacks, and that re-verification is also necessary after fixing those vulnerabilities.
Enerzai plans to participate in IBC 2026, the world's largest broadcasting and media exhibition, and unveil its set-top-box-specific on-device AI agent technology. Enerzai announced its participation in IBC 2026 on the 11th. IBC 2026 is held at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Enerzai develops ultra-lightweight AI agents for on-device operation on devices with limited resources. The company has experience commercially deploying on-device AI to more than 3 million smart home devices, including set-top boxes.
The technology on display this time is aimed at set-top boxes with limited memory and computing resources. It enables a variety of AI agent functions without a separate cloud connection.
Enerzai is collaborating with Broadcom. The AI agent demo will be presented at the booth of a global OEM company that manufactures set-top boxes equipped with Broadcom chips. Examples of such OEM companies include Sagemcom and KAON Group.
On site, the demonstration model "Self-Help" will be showcased. Based on voice queries, the model refers to product manuals and provides feature guidance and troubleshooting methods.
Another demonstration model, "Translation," recognizes video audio, generates subtitles and translates in real time into the desired language. This exhibition will focus on AI agent models specialized for set-top-box environments.
Kolon Benit announced on the 4th that it had been selected as the winner in the Breakthrough category of Cloudera's "Asia Pacific Innovation Partner of the Year 2026" awards. Kolon Benit was the first Korean company to receive the award in that category.
The Breakthrough category is for partners that secured notable customer references and business results in the AI field over the past year. As Cloudera's domestic distributor, Kolon Benit has built Iceberg-based data platforms in the manufacturing and finance sectors and has created an integrated Trino query environment.
Through this process, Kolon Benit accumulated data engineering capabilities. It also supplied Cloudera platform and Cloudera AI-based environments to domestic manufacturers and built AI model inference and serving infrastructure for major manufacturing clients.
Cloudera said these activities demonstrate Kolon Benit's continued growth and innovation. It also viewed them as outcomes that expanded AI projects into core business areas for enterprises.
With this award, Kolon Benit plans to strengthen joint sales and technical cooperation with Cloudera and expand business linked to the Cloudera Platform, Cloudera AI and Cloudera Anywhere Cloud. To that end, it plans to provide integrated support across the entire process, from assessing customer environments and establishing data strategies to platform deployment, model operations, security and governance.
Kolon Benit also plans to further strengthen partner solutions and custom IP integration through the marketplace. Lee Kyung-guk, head of Kolon Benit's business division, said the award was the result of linking its data and AI engineering capabilities to customers' core business outcomes, and expressed the company's intent to strengthen its role as an AX enabler for converting customer data to AI and connecting AI to tangible business value, based on its collaboration with Cloudera.
Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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