The government is changing how it supports AI-related vouchers, reducing direct aid for small firms to buy and process data and shifting toward integrated support for corporate AI transformation (AX). The 2026 data voucher budget is set at 9.35 billion won, down 66.6 percent from a year earlier, amid declining revenue for the Information and Communications Promotion Fund. A new AX one-stop voucher is budgeted at 30 billion won, but its higher threshold limits access for smaller firms.

AI technology company Crowdworks said on Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with physical AI company XYZ to build robot training data and cooperate on related business. The companies will combine XYZ’s robot hardware capabilities with Crowdworks’ data processing to standardise behaviour data and refine it for robot learning. They also plan to expand cooperation on government-led AI and robotics projects, including building a robot data ecosystem and exploring distribution models.