Artificial intelligence (AI) service specialized company ESTsoft announced on the 31st that it has signed a business agreement with FuriosaAI to jointly promote educational projects aimed at cultivating AI talents.
FuriosaAI is a corporation that develops innovative high-performance, low-power AI semiconductors to help AI applications operate at high performance and is gaining significant attention in the global AI computing hardware market.
Through this agreement, the two companies decided to work together to promote educational projects for nurturing talents in the AI semiconductor field. Accordingly, ESTsoft will receive support from FuriosaAI for infrastructure, content, platform, technical lectures needed for AI semiconductor talent cultivation education.
In particular, there are plans to include the optimization of AI models using FuriosaAI's neural processing unit (NPU) chip, the Warboy card, in the educational programs operated by ESTsoft, along with lightweight work and performance verification for the hardware application of the models. Additionally, the two companies agreed to continue various collaborations for mutual development of the domestic AI industry through this business agreement.
Jung Sang-won, CEO of ESTsoft, noted, “AI software and AI semiconductors have a mutually reinforcing relationship, making them very important areas for the development of the AI industry”, and added, “As a leading company in AI services, ESTsoft is committed to working harder to cultivate talents in this field”.