Oracle Says Domestic AI Startups Are Accelerating OCI-Based AI Innovation

Oracle said that OCI-based AI innovation is accelerating among domestic AI startups. The startups involved are Farmkit, Silicopharm, and Superb AI, and their underlying infrastructure is OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).

Backed by OCI's support for large-scale data processing and AI model operations, these startups are delivering AI services to global markets with improved performance and scalability.

Kim Sung-ha, president of Oracle Korea, said domestic AI startups are rapidly moving from the experimental stage to the stage of generating actual business results. He also said they need scalable infrastructure aligned with their growth goals, adding that OCI offers the performance, scalability and stability needed to develop, deploy and scale AI solutions for securing global market opportunities.

Farmkit operates 'TasteQ,' a personalization and recommendation technology platform for e-commerce companies, and is preparing to enter the U.S. market and develop AI commerce services. Accordingly, Farmkit needed a scalable cloud platform capable of handling large-scale requests and responding to global demand, as well as support for data and AI models and efficient traffic distribution.

To meet those needs, Farmkit migrated to OCI. It uses OCI Compute as the foundation for application operations and OCI Kubernetes Engine (OKE) for managing containerized services.

Farmkit's migration to OCI has made it possible to strengthen the stability and scalability of its AI commerce services. It has also established a foundation for improving operational efficiency and supporting better service performance.

Yang Sung-hong, CEO of Farmkit, said that as the global e-commerce market shifts to an agentic commerce era in which AI supports the entire shopping process, high-performance cloud infrastructure at a global level has become essential. He added that adopting OCI has secured service scalability and stability, while also laying the groundwork for expansion into the North American market.

Yang said the company plans to further advance AI shopping agent-based services through technological and business collaboration with Oracle. He also said it plans to actively target the global next-generation AI commerce market.

Silicopharm has been advancing pharmaceutical and biotechnology research by using AI to generate and analyze omics data. In this process, it needed to respond to growing demand and required a cloud environment capable of analyzing large-scale omics data. It also needed infrastructure that could expand computing resources when necessary.

In response, Silicopharm established an omics generation and analysis platform based on large-scale screening using OCI Compute and data management using OCI Object Storage.

Through this platform, it became possible to perform more than 400 omics screening tasks in parallel, and automatic expansion of computing resources in line with demand also became possible. Based on this, the platform now supports the discovery of new targets and additional research candidates.

Ji Sang-ho, CEO of Silicopharm, said the efficient generation and analysis of large-scale omics data is central to the competitiveness of precision medicine and biotech research. He added that the company has secured stable and scalable infrastructure based on OCI, and that it plans to use this to provide its technology to more pharmaceutical and biotech customers while helping reduce R&D time and costs.

Superb AI is responsible for converting video data generated in industrial environments into actionable visual intelligence. To expand its global business, the company recognized the need for a scalable cloud environment for storing, processing and analyzing industrial video data.

Accordingly, Superb AI built 'Superb Video Analytics' on top of that environment. The platform is designed as a scalable AI platform.

During the build process, Superb AI used the Oracle AI Database, OCI Compute and OCI Object Storage. This has reduced customers' manual monitoring, supported the use of video data in decision-making, and created a structure that helps improve response speed to safety, security and operational issues.

Kim Hyun-soo, CEO of Superb AI, said demand is growing rapidly across industries such as manufacturing, robotics and physical security to use accumulated video data for actual decision-making. He added that, based on OCI, the company has established a foundation for validating vision AI technology in real industrial environments and for enterprise-scale expansion, and that it plans to continuously broaden the application of its AI video monitoring solutions across various industrial sites and global customers.

Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408752

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