Persona AI CEO Yoo Seung-jae (left) is signing a business agreement with Gwangju Industry-Academia Convergence Institute Director Lee Cheon-hwan for the development of future mobility technology on the 26th.

Persona AI (CEO Seungjae Yoo), a company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), signed a business agreement with the Gwangju Industry-Academia Convergence Institute (President Cheonhwan Lee) on the 26th for future technology development and industrial innovation.

Through this business agreement, both organizations plan to develop new technologies and innovative services by cross-converging their respective strengths and contribute to the development of the local community and industry.

Gwangju Industry-Academia Convergence Institute will promote collaboration between local universities and companies and provide technology research and development support, and Persona AI will provide know-how and technology as an AI solution company attracting attention in the Gwangju region.

Gwangju Industry-Academia Convergence Institute, located in Gwangju Bitgreen Industrial Complex, presents a new industry-academia cooperation model that will lead Gwangju's future automobile industry and promotes shared growth between companies and universities by supporting research and development (R&D) capabilities for companies and creating a corporate research center within the industry-academia convergence district. It is a supporting organization.

Persona AI is an AI solution company that is diversifying its business with various solutions such as chatbots, callbots, AI kiosks, AI semiconductors, metahumans, and AI-based real-time customer consultation centers based on its self-developed AI conversation engine.

Lee Cheon-hwan, director of the Gwangju Industry-Academia Convergence Institute, said, “Through this cooperation, we expect to actively contribute to the development of the local community and industry and play a role in leading new industry-academia cooperation models and technological innovation.”

Seungjae Yoo, CEO of Persona AI, said, “We plan to develop the local startup ecosystem and also conduct programs to strengthen the technical capabilities of young talent.”

Gwangju = Reporter Kim Han-sik hskim@etnews.com

Source: Electronic Newspaper