Clika, a company specialising in lightweight artificial intelligence model optimisation, said on Aug. 10 it was selected as the sole final winner in the global defence AI technology cooperation programme AI Joint Challenge. The programme is jointly organised by Singapore agencies Cap Vista and FSTD and France’s AMIAD. The challenge seeks AI technologies for operational tasks and converts them into pilot projects. Clika was chosen for AI optimisation enabling deployment under SWaP constraints without performance loss.

Hancom reported first-quarter standalone revenue of 46.5 billion won and operating profit of 17.6 billion won, up 2.4 percent and 2.7 percent from a year earlier. On a consolidated basis, revenue was 63.6 billion won and operating profit was 8.5 billion won. The company said its AI business led growth and it is targeting annual revenue of 210 billion won this year. It also plans to launch a \"twin-type agentic OS\" in the first half.