Artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud software (SW) corporations Okestro said on the 8th that it was selected as the lead organization for the government project "Cloud-Native SW stack and model hub technology development specialized for AI Semiconductor."
The project, overseen by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), totals 11.25 billion won and will run for four years from this year through 2029. It aims to establish a cloud-based operating framework so that next-generation AI accelerators such as domestically produced Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and processing-in-memory (PIM) can deliver optimal performance in general-purpose cloud environments.
Okestro will advance a Cloud-Native SW stack specialized for AI Semiconductor and build an "AI model hub" platform that allows easy registration and deployment of training and inference models to spread services based on domestically produced AI Semiconductor. It plans to secure more than 1,000 optimized models by the end of the project.
The results of this research are expected to be linked to the government's "K-Cloud Project" and the "national AI computing infrastructure" construction project, which goes into full swing this year, and be applied to actual data center operating environments.
Okestro CEO Kim Beom-jae said, "This project is significant in that it lays the core software foundation needed for domestically produced AI Semiconductor to secure competitiveness in the global market," and added, "Okestro will implement an AI computing environment in which hardware and software are organically integrated, enhance the self-reliance of Korea's AI infrastructure, and contribute to the expansion of the domestically produced AI Semiconductor ecosystem."