Upstage, FuriosaAI team up to power Daum's AI search with domestic AI stack

Upstage is partnering with its subsidiary AXZ, operator of internet portal Daum, and artificial intelligence (AI) chip startup FuriosaAI to run Daum’s new AI Summary search feature, which the companies describe as Korea’s first commercially deployed full-stack sovereign AI architecture.

The collaboration brings together Upstage’s Solar large language model (LLM) on FuriosaAI’s RNGD neural processing unit (NPU) to power Daum’s AI Summary search feature in a single, end‑to‑end stack.

The companies said the deployment marks Korea’s first commercial example of an AI stack built entirely with domestic technologies, spanning AI infrastructure, foundation models and end‑user services.

To mark the launch, Upstage CEO Kim Sung-hoon, AXZ CEO Lee Keon-su and FuriosaAI CEO June Paik met Tuesday at AXZ's headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province to discuss the partnership and the future of sovereign AI.

Daum’s AI Summary feature, which launched its beta service earlier this month, analyzes web documents using an LLM to generate comprehensive answers to search queries.

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