Global artificial intelligence (AI) agent startup Liner said on March 12 it has joined the 'K-Moonshot' project led by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Liner attended a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony for the K-Moonshot initiative held on March 11 at The Plaza Hotel in Seoul as a representative company in the science AI agent field. The agreement aims to use AI to solve national science and technology challenges and to build a mission-oriented research and development (R&D) innovation system by bringing together public and private capabilities.

The ministry and participating companies are set to play a central role in cooperation on identifying and validating national science and technology challenges, providing technical support by using their resources such as AI models, data and specialist personnel, and sharing information among industry, academia and research institutes and spreading research outcomes into industry.

At the signing ceremony, Liner delivered an open statement on the topic of a 'demonstration of an AI-based scientific research platform'. It said it is a partner capable of delivering results in national R&D settings based on verified AI capabilities, and expressed its ambition to contribute to strengthening national science and technology competitiveness.

Liner said its capabilities have already been proven on the global stage. It said 3 papers written using Liner's research AI agent were accepted at 'Agents4Science 2025' hosted by Stanford University in the United States in October last year. It said a paper by Choi Jae-young (최재영), a student at Korea Science Academy who wrote a paper for the first time in his life, was selected as a top 11 'Spotlight' paper.

Liner's key weapon is 'Liner Scholar', which operates based on a vast academic database of 460,000,000 entries worldwide. Liner Scholar describes itself as an 'AI co-researcher' system in which each research agent interacts with researchers in real time to complete outputs.

Liner CEO Jin-woo Kim (김진우) said, "We will deploy Liner's unrivaled agentic research capabilities to create an environment where domestic researchers can focus on creative research." He added, "We will concentrate all our capabilities so we can dramatically raise the nation's science and technology competitiveness."