Theta Labs is a global leader in decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI, media, and entertainment, and it announces its new partnership with South Korea's prestigious Kyung Hee University as the 10th academic institution that has joined Theta EdgeCloud AI in a few months. Kyung Hee University is well-known for being one of the top institutions in South Korea; it is also at the forefront of AI and computing research in the country. This partnership is a sign of Theta's increasing penetration in the academic world and indicates a growing demand for its advanced hybrid cloud-edge GPU computing platform among top universities worldwide.
Kyung Hee University joins Theta’s distinguished lineup of academic partners, which includes the University of Oregon in the U.S. and nine prestigious universities in South Korea including Seoul National University, KAIST, Yonsei University, and Korea University. These collaborations empower institutions to leverage Theta’s cutting-edge EdgeCloud platform to push the boundaries of AI research.
At the heart of this collaboration is Professor Sung-Ho Bae, an accomplished scholar and leader of the Machine Learning and Visual Computing (MLVC) Lab at Kyung Hee University.
With Theta EdgeCloud, Kyung Hee researchers gain access to scalable, cost-efficient GPU computing power to advance their work in AI-driven media quality enhancement, edge computing, and generative AI. This partnership reaffirms Theta’s mission to make high-performance computing more accessible and transformative for academia.
Through this partnership, Kyung Hee University researchers aim to Improve model training and inference efficiency using EdgeCloud, Drive real-time media processing and generative AI applications, Develop scalable AI models for efficient AI deployments.
Professor Sung-ho Bae: “As Theta EdgeCloud’s 10th academic partner, we’re excited to integrate Theta’s transformative decentralized cloud platform into our research ecosystem”, said Professor Sung-Ho Bae. “The scalability, performance, and affordability of Theta’s hybrid GPU computing are unmatched, allowing us to pursue various AI projects that were previously constrained by resource limitations”.
Mitch Liu, co-founder and CEO of Theta Labs: “Once again, we’re thrilled to welcome another great academic partner to EdgeCloud, Kyung Hee University. As the 10th customer in academia in a few short months, adoption and momentum is growing quickly for Theta EdgeCloud in the research community. Professor Bae and his team are at the forefront of AI innovation, and we’re proud to support their groundbreaking work”.
