NC AI has won a Hanwha Ocean project to develop a vision-recognition welding model and a collaborative-robot autonomous welding model, it said on Wednesday. The project combines AI vision recognition with precision robot control for welding, a core shipbuilding process. The goal is a physical AI solution that identifies and judges weld areas and performs optimal welding in real time. The results are set to be applied to Hanwha Ocean’s commercial and special-purpose shipbuilding.

NC AI on Thursday unveiled VAETKI, a scalable multimodal generative foundation model aimed at supporting AI transformation in South Korea’s key industries. The model was trained on 10 trillion tokens and allocates 20 percent of its tokenizer vocabulary to Korean, including the ability to handle archaic language. NC AI said internal tests show stronger Korean benchmarks than GPT-OSS-120B series models and higher performance than Meta’s Llama 4 Scout on instruction following and reasoning. It also cuts KV cache memory use by about 83 percent.