An artificial intelligence (AI) serving robot from Korea Telecom (KT) carries food to customers (not pictured) during a demonstration event at Mad for Garlic restaurant in Seoul, South Korea. Photo by JEON HEON-KYUN / EPA
KT said Sunday it has published 148 artificial intelligence research papers over the past five years, as it steps up efforts to translate research into commercial services.
The company said 49 of those papers were accepted at leading global conferences, including the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.
KT has formed joint research centers with major universities such as Seoul National University, KAIST and Korea University, combining academic expertise with its own technology and business experience. It is also collaborating with Microsoft Research to strengthen its global research capabilities.
The company said it has built a framework that integrates research planning, validation and commercialization, aiming to ensure that research outcomes are directly applied to services and business operations.
Since last year, KT has expanded its research focus to include agentic AI, vertical AI, responsible AI and physical AI. It said multimodal and agentic AI technologies are already being applied to commercial services, including its “Mi:um K” platform and agentic fabric-based systems.
KT held a joint workshop Wednesday at its Umyeon Research Center in southern Seoul with researchers from Seoul National University and KAIST to review ongoing projects and discuss future research directions and business applications.
Oh Seung-pil, head of KT’s technology innovation division, said the company will continue to strengthen its AI capabilities by aligning research and product development.
“We will proactively secure next-generation AI technologies through a roadmap that closely links research and products, and continue to enhance AI competitiveness in real industrial environments,” Oh said.
— Reported by Asia Today; translated by UPI
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