AI digital forensics company Urak said on Tuesday it will join the Global Corporate Collaboration Program N-UP, promoted by South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups and supported by Nvidia (NVIDIA).

N-UP is a global program that supports technology advancement and business growth for South Korean startups. Urak said it was selected for N-UP after a comprehensive evaluation of its technological competitiveness in AI digital forensics, commercialization potential and global market scalability.

Urak said it will use the selection to upgrade on-device, field-ready digital forensics technology based on AI and accelerate commercialization of dedicated AI edge devices for forensics. It plans to target domestic and overseas markets with a field-ready AI forensic platform that independently collects and analyzes data even in closed networks with limited internet connectivity.

Urak said it will advance multimodal data analysis and classification accuracy verification, natural-language queries and reasoning, AI model lightweighting and closed-network response technology, centered on its AI laboratory. Based on that work, it plans to introduce a dedicated AI edge device for forensics that connects directly to a field PC and handles key steps inside the device, from data collection and analysis to identification of meaningful information.

Urak said it plans to unveil a prototype on-device AI-based forensic edge device within this year and speed up commercialization.

Urak CEO Bong-seok Yoo (유봉석) said selection for N-UP is an important turning point that expands the field-ready digital forensics technology it has accumulated into on-device AI and links it to real products and business. He said the company will commercialize an AI edge forensic device to broaden its scope of application and create new AI digital forensics business opportunities in global markets.