NAVER Unveils HyperCLOVA, Korea’s First Hyperscale ‘Al to Empower Everyone’
NAVER Unveils HyperCLOVA, Korea’s First Hyperscale ‘Al to Empower Everyone’
NAVER Unveils HyperCLOVA, Korea’s First Hyperscale ‘Al to Empower Everyone’
- NAVER, the only Korean company to challenge global tech giants for leadership in hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI), will achieve ‘AI sovereignty’ for Korea
- NAVER gains a competitive edge in the global AI race with HyperCLOVA which learned 6,500 times more Korean data than GPT-3
- Starting with the guided search experience, NAVER plans to roll out AI technology in various NAVER services, providing users with differentiated experiences in everyday life
- NAVER provides easy-to-use ‘AI to empower’ every SME and creator who is in need of the technology to explore more business opportunity
2021-05-25
NAVER Corporation (KRX: 035420) today unveiled HyperCLOVA, Korea’s first hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI), and announced its plan to become a global AI technology leader, having established itself as the first Korean company to develop its own hyperscale AI model.
At the NAVER AI NOW conference held online today, NAVER shared its AI achievements since putting its supercomputers into operation last October and announced its future plans for the technology. NAVER aims to use HyperCLOVA to introduce new and differentiated experiences to users, including small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and content creators, thereby shifting the paradigm of Korean AI, and leading the era of ‘AI to empower everyone.’
HyperCLOVA, the first hyperscale AI and biggest Korean language model in the world
Though many tech companies in Korea are struggling to develop hyperscale AI, NAVER is virtually the only company that has the capability to compete with global big tech giants. HyperCLOVA has 204 billion parameters, which is much more than the 175 billion parameters in GPT-3, created by OpenAI. Parameters are the key to machine learning algorithms and the part of the AI model that’s learned from historical training data. So, the more parameters an AI model has, the more information it can process and the more tasks it can perform.
HyperCLOVA enables Korea to achieve ‘AI sovereignty’ against global AI models that mostly work in English or Chinese. HyperCLOVA is the biggest Korean AI language model in the world, as 97% of the data studied by HyperCLOVA is Korean. It has studied 6,500 times more Korean language data than GPT-3, which has studied mostly English language data.
“Global tech giants are accelerating investment in hyperscale AI with the expectation that it will bring disruptive innovation. With HyperCLOVA, we are developing our own AI that gives us technological independence from other global tech companies and a distinct advantage in the race for AI leadership,” Seok-Keun Jeong, CEO of NAVER CLOVA CIC, explained why NAVER started the development of the HyperCLOVA in his keynote speech.
Amplify technology leadership with global-level infrastructure, data and AI expertise
In October 2020, NAVER put into operation a supercomputer with 700 petaflops (PF)—a first among private companies in Korea. The computer with such big data processing capability helped NAVER accelerate the development of its hyperscale AI.
Being Korea’s largest internet company provides NAVER with a competitive advantage in the AI space, enabling its HyperCLOVA to process vast amounts of data from its internet platform. NAVER tokenized 560 billion sequences of Korean language data to develop HyperCLOVA.
In addition to supercomputer infrastructure and vast Korean language data, NAVER’s world-class AI R&D capability has been another important factor in the development of HyperCLOVA. Top global AI conferences have acknowledged NAVER’s AI R&D capability by publishing 43 research papers, the largest number among Korean companies, in 2020 alone. In addition, the company is stepping up its joint AI research with academia by establishing AI research centers with Seoul National University and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
NAVER plans to train HyperCLOVA on other languages and continue to upgrade it to build ‘multimodal’ neural network-AI systems that learn about concepts in several modalities, primarily the textural and visual domains, in order to better understand the world.
Present new user experience by integrating HyperCLOVA technology to NAVER services
HyperCLOVA completely changes the paradigm of AI development and its application. Its unrivaled simplicity allows the AI to be implemented and used more widely in everyday life through NAVER services. Unlike other AI models developed by securing refined data to tackle each problem, HyperCLOVA is able to learn vast amounts of data and apply it to various tasks and problems. It not only enables more efficient development of AI models but also greatly increases the scalability of AI.
NAVER plans to provide its users with differentiated experiences by applying HyperCLOVA technology to various NAVER services. As the first case, NAVER implemented HyperCLOVA for its search service on May 6 to offer a guided experience, by correcting typos or providing keyword suggestions for more accurate search results.
AI to empower all SMEs, creators and startups that need the technology
NAVER intends HyperCLOVA to become an ‘AI to Empower’ all those who need help from the technology, such as SMEs, creators and startups. With this direction, NAVER will make it easier for anyone to create and operate AI through few-shot learning that includes simple explanations and examples. Anyone who is not an AI expert will be able to easily create AI services, such as writing marketing phrases, summarizing materials, or providing natural answers to questions. NAVER plans to implement the technology in various ways through its day-to-day business and ongoing joint research efforts.
“We are opening a new era of AI that takes less time and fewer resources to enable things that were only imagined or not even imagined before,” said Jeong. “HyperCLOVA will provide new experiences to empower every SME and creator who needs AI technology.”
NAVER has been enhancing users’ daily lives with advanced AI technology and adding value to SMEs’ businesses and creators’ activities. In particular, the company utilizes HyperCLOVA’s advanced natural language process, voice recognition and voice synthesis technologies to enhance the work efficiency at the front lines during the pandemic. NAVER’s CLOVA CareCall, an AI call service powered by HyperCLOVA, is used to monitor symptoms of the self-quarantined.
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