Telecommunications & Media

KT launches NPU LLM Station featuring Korean AI chip

KT has launched an enterprise sovereign AI appliance that integrates a Korean-made AI chip and its own large language model into a single server. The KT NPU LLM Station combines Rebellion\'s ATOM-MAX neural processing unit with KT\'s Mi:deum K 2.5 Pro model and an operating API platform. The on-premises product keeps data and AI processing inside customer premises and is aimed at industries facing regulatory and security constraints on external generative AI.

Industry

Rebellions to supply large volumes of homegrown NPUs for public CCTV control

A South Korean neural processing unit (NPU) will be deployed for the first time at a public safety infrastructure site. AI chip company Rebellions said on Aug. 3 it won server infrastructure contracts for Gyeongsangnam-do Provincial Government and Ulsan Metropolitan City CCTV control centres under a public AI CCTV conversion project led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency. It plans to deliver its server-type NPU, ATOM-Max, from August.