📖 AI Glossary

DeepMind is Google’s AI research lab, known for AlphaGo, AlphaFold, and major contributions to Gemini.

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company and chatbot service of the same name that shook the global stock market in early 2025 with its low-cost, high-performance AI model.

Figure is a U.S. startup developing humanoid robots powered by AI.

Furiosa AI is a Korean AI semiconductor design startup that has become a hot topic due to rumors of Meta's acquisition proposal.

Google is a global technology company behind Gemini, combining search, Android, YouTube, cloud, and AI.

Groq is a U.S. AI chip company focused on fast inference, and is separate from Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok.

Hugging Face operates one of the world’s largest platforms for sharing AI models, datasets, and demos.

IBM is a long-established U.S. IT company that once led enterprise AI with Watson and now focuses on enterprise AI and quantum computing.

Intel is a U.S. semiconductor company historically known for CPUs and now trying to regain momentum in AI chips.

Kakao is the operator of KakaoTalk, it is attracting attention in the domestic AI market through its partnership with OpenAI and its own AI service.

KT is a Korean telecommunications company pursuing Korean-focused AI and AI data center businesses in partnership with Microsoft.

LG Group's AI research organization develops the domestic AI model EXAONE.

To put it in words, it is a Swedish startup that operates a Vibe coding service that creates entire web services.

Meta operates Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and is known for releasing open-weight AI models such as Llama.

Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest investor and partner, and is integrating AI into Office, Windows, Azure, and Copilot.

Mistral AI is a French AI company and one of Europe’s leading developers of AI models.

Moonshot AI is a Chinese AI startup famous for its chatbot Kimi. It received global attention with the release of the open-weight model.

Naver is Korea’s leading internet company and operates Korean-focused AI services such as CLOVA Note and HyperCLOVA X.

Nota is a Korean startup specializing in on-device AI technology that compresses AI models into small pieces and runs them directly on the device.

NVIDIA is a U.S. semiconductor company that dominates the GPU market for AI training and inference.