KT Holds “K-PATH 2026,” Accelerates AX Deployment With AI Startups
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KT held "K-PATH 2026" at Sofitel Ambassador Seoul in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and unveiled major AX collaboration cases with AI startups.
K-PATH is an innovation program that nurtures promising startups with AI technologies into KT's AX business partners, and KT has selected startups every year since 2024, continuing business cooperation with a total of 56 companies so far.
About 200 people attended the event, and KT introduced collaboration cases in physical AI and agentic AI, along with external support programs from AWS and Google Cloud and business meeting sessions.
KT held "K-PATH 2026" at Sofitel Ambassador Seoul in Songpa-gu, Seoul, and on the 20th disclosed major AX collaboration cases with AI startups. K-PATH is an innovation program that nurtures promising startups with AI technologies into KT's AX business partners.
K-PATH aims to promote joint projects between KT and startups. Since 2024, KT has selected promising startups each year and has continued business cooperation with a total of 56 companies so far.
About 200 people from the venture and industry sectors attended the event, including past K-PATH-selected companies and officials from the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Hyundai Motor. KT disclosed major AX collaboration cases on top of that accumulated cooperation base.
KT introduced collaboration results that combined startups' specialized technologies with KT's business and technological capabilities. The collaboration results addressed AX challenges in actual industrial and work settings.
At the event, KT presented a collaboration model centered on linking business domains and actual commercialization. Through this, it showed a collaboration flow in which startups' technologies and KT's capabilities are combined to solve on-site challenges and then linked to KT's business, leading to commercialization.
Daim Technology and 3i, which are preparing for commercialization with KT, presented technologies in the physical AI field. Daim Technology is preparing a physical AI-based factory operations service that combines robot integrated control and digital twins. 3i is developing a "public SOC physical AI" service that automates the process in which robots are dispatched to photograph a facility after an anomaly is detected and AI interprets the results.
In the agentic AI field, cases from Psionic AI and DALPHA were unveiled. Psionic AI developed an AI agent that presents the causes of network failures and possible countermeasures, and is verifying ways to apply it to KT's network operations work. DALPHA developed a solution that uses AI to analyze drama scripts and proposals to support content planning and investment, and KT plans to apply the solution to the group's media and content businesses.
To support growth and business expansion for startups participating in the K-PATH program, KT introduced startup support programs run by global IT companies such as AWS and Google Cloud at the event. This was to provide external support programs to help K-PATH participants achieve follow-on growth.
KT also arranged business meetings with venture and industry officials, and the sessions were promoted for the purpose of seeking investment. Lee Min-gyu, CEO of Autometa, said he was willing to actively cooperate with various participating companies, including KT, to apply the technology on-site and commercialize it.
Source: IT DAILY · Seong Won-young
Original: https://www.itdaily.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=242301
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