The Ministry of Science and ICT announced on the 10th that the team from Kyungnam University, participating in the regional talent development project for master's and doctoral level students supported in collaboration with the Institute of Information and Communications Planning and Evaluation (IITP), has won the global large language model (LLM) agent development competition organized by the Responsibility and Distributed Intelligence Center at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).
In the competition, which saw participation from over 1,000 teams worldwide, Kyungnam University's team 'GNAIX,' formed in collaboration with regional manufacturing artificial intelligence (AI) corporations NextStudio Co., Ltd. and Anitoy Co., Ltd., secured the final victory in the agent architecture category of the research track.
The Kyungnam University team demonstrated an AI agent-based autonomous manufacturing system that can control production processes quickly and efficiently by integrating the LLM with the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), the standard for industrial digital twin, which is a platform for storing and exchanging digital information about industrial equipment or parts in a standardized structure.
The 'Regional Intelligence Innovation Talent Development' project supported by Kyungnam University is a joint research project aimed at advancing local industry by utilizing the university's information and communications technology (ICT) capabilities. Since 2015, the Ministry of Science and ICT has designated and operated major regional universities nationwide as Regional Intelligence Innovation Research Centers, providing an annual budget of approximately 2 billion won for up to eight years to each research center.
The Kyungnam University Research Center was selected as a support target last year. It is currently working to enhance the competitiveness of the local industry and advance industrial structure through research and education in AI and data-driven intelligent machinery, smart factories, future mobility, and digital healthcare. The center plans to train 140 high-level professionals by 2028 to contribute to the growth of key industries in the Gyeongnam region.
Park Tae-wan, the director of the Information and Communications Industry Policy at the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, 'The case of Kyungnam University is an achievement that proves that regional academia and industry can compete together as one team on the global stage.'