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    2024

  • 03

    Saltlux groups, relocated offices to Jamsil Hyanggun Tower

    LUXIA achieved the World's No.1 on the Open LLM Leaderboard (Based on models with 35B or less)

    Launched 'LUXIA-ON', the World's First All-in-One Generative AI Appliance

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    2023

  • 11

    acquired Diquest Co., Ltd. and established NHN-Saltlux Alliance

  • 09

    Opened ‘Ploonet Work Center’, the only omni-channel AI employee service in the country and started beta

  • 06

    Won the LLM project for the first time in Korea and concluded a contract for the establishment of safety ChatGPT with Seoul Metro

  • 05

    Concluded a contract for the Government AI-based Integrated Call Center Service Establishment with the Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission

  • 03

    Unveiled ‘Luxia’, a large language model developed with the Korean version of ChatGPT, for the first time.

  • 01

    Received innovation awards in software and mobile application from CES 2023

    Participated in CES, the world’s largest electronics show and unveiled Ploonet Studio on the global stage

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    2022

  • 09

    Launched Language Studio, a customized language model implementation tool

    Launched Voice Studio, a voice recognition/synthesis product

  • 08

    Launched Talkbot Studio, an all-in-one chatbot production management product

  • 06

    Signed with the Ministry of Government Legislation to build an intelligent statutory information platform

  • 05

    Signed a 3rd contract for the national secretary Guppy service

    Signed with the Constitutional Court for an intelligent e-court system

  • 04

    Signed with KOTRA for an integrated foreign economic platform (2nd)

  • 01

    Officially introduced DeepSignal at its 2nd visit at CES, the largest tech event in the world

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    2021

  • 12

    Established a subsidiary company, Ploonet

  • 09

    Signed a 2-2 contract for the national secretary Guppy service

  • 08

    Ministry of Science and ICT Ministerial Prize in the 2021 AI Korea

  • 06

    Selected for the AI Learning Data Project for Digital New Deal (large-scale Korean corpus etc.)

    Signed with the Constitutional Court for the groundwork of the intelligent e-court system etc.

  • 05

    Established Geromics, a bio-AI venture business

  • 04

    IT Digital category, 2021 National Industry Awards

  • 02

    Grand Prize, IT Solution category, 20th Korea SW Business Competitiveness Awards

    Established Saltlux Ventures, an SME investment company

  • 01

    Renamed Saltlux Technology Co., Ltd. (Vietnam) to Saltlux Technology Joint Stock Company

    Established Ulsan branch of the Saltlux Bio-AI Center

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    2020

  • 12

    Ministry of Justice Ministerial Awards for the “Juvenile Delinquency prevention Work Merit”

  • 11

    Selected as an excellent contract company for the “2020 Regional and Industry-tailored Manpower Training Project” by the Gyeonggido Business & Science Accelerator

    Grand Prize, Enterprise category, 2020 Korea AI Awards

  • 10

    Selected as the “September's Best Digital New Deal Company” by the Ministry of Science and ICT

  • 09

    Selected for the AI learning data project for the Digital New Deal (Korean dialect AI data construction, etc.)

  • 08

    Officially launched “Saltlux AI Cloud”, a 3rd generation AI cloud service (AIaaS)

  • 07

    Signed with the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s for the “Establishment of Government-wide Civil Service Consultation 365 (chatbot common infrastructure)” project

    First KOSDAQ-listed company in the industry

  • 06

    Established Gwangju Artificial Intelligence Center Co., Ltd. in Gwangju

  • 01

    Data/AI company visitation and conference with Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun

    Attended CES 2020- demonstration of AI virtual human service

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    2019

  • 12

    Held the Korea Deep Learning event

  • 11

    Introduced My First Pyongyang Friend, attended the Dictionary of Language Integration in South and North Korea PR booth

  • 11

    Attended the BIXPO 2019

  • 10

    Signed a partnership agreement with Infiniq

  • 09

    Held the Explainable AI Knowledge Graph Tutorial event

  • 08

    Signed a partnership agreement with Symation

    Contracted with the National Institute of Korean Language for the “Spoken Data Collection and Raw Corpus Project”

  • 07

    Signed a partnership agreement with Atlas Labs

    Attended the AI Expo Korea 2019

  • 06

    Signed a partnership agreement with Frontis

  • 05

    Saltlux Partner Boot Camp - Held the graph DB & knowledge graph

  • 03

    Saltlux Partner Boot Camp - Held the AI Suite

  • 02

    Grand Prize, IT Solution category,18th Korea SW Business Competitiveness Awards

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    2018

  • 12

    Held the 13th SAC ‘Artificial Intelligence, Can Personality of Human Be Learned?’ in 2018

  • 11

    Built the real-time non face-to-face voice consultation AI CallBot at NH Bank

    Received the Commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office Award at the IP Awards in 2018

    ADAM Talkbot (v3.0) received 1st class GS (Good Software) certification

  • 10

    Built the KT Giga Genie knowledge graph-based general knowledge Q&A service

  • 09

    Received a citation from the Minister of Science and ICT at the Korea ICT Innovation Awards in 2018

  • 08

    Held the Exobrain Linguistic Intelligence Symposium in 2018

    Held Saltlux press conference

  • 04

    Held the Future of Data, Artificial Intelligence & Universities event

    Signed a partnership agreement with Hanwha S&C

  • 03

    Held a Saltlux company-wide overseas workshop (Da Nang, Vietnam)

  • 02

    Built the spatial big data system for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport

  • 01

    Received a citation from the Mayor of Seoul at the Public-Private Cooperation Excellence Awards in 2017

  • 01

    Participated in the business agreement ceremony for the cooperation in the ‘Nano degree’ business between the Ministry of Education and KT

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    2019

  • 05

    Saltlux Partner Boot Camp - Held the graph DB & knowledge graph

  • 03

    Saltlux Partner Boot Camp - Held the AI Suite

  • 02

    Received the top prize in the IT Solution category at 18th Korea SW Business Competitiveness Awards

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    2016

  • 07

    Held a movie showing to celebrate Saltlux’s 35th Anniversary of Establishment

  • 05

    Launched ceremonies to appoint a holding company of the ‘Intelligence Information Industry Forum’ in 2016

  • 03

    Launched the Intelligence Information Industry Association. Tony Lee, representative director of Saltlux, was elected the president.

    Held the 9th SAC Seminar for Artificial Intelligence Industry Development Strategy and Utilization of Linked Open Data (LOD) in 2016

  • 02

    Saltlux PARTNER'S DAY

    Launched 'ADAM', Saltlux Artificial Intelligence Program

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    2017

  • 12

    Participated in the International conference on Artificial Intelligence 2017

    Opened the AI consultation helper service at NH Bank

  • 11

    Held 12th SAC “Truth about Artificial Intelligence and Data” in 2017

  • 09

    Built the AI consultation system at Woori Bank

    Tony Lee, the representative director of Saltlux, appointed as a civilian committee member of “Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution”

  • 07

    Participated in Korea-China AI and ICT Industry Joint Seminar

  • 06

    Donated BLUEBOLT SW, a big data analysis engine, to the Graduate School of Namseoul University

  • 05

    Launched DATAMIXI, a big data recognition and analysis service

  • 02

    An Executive Company of the Korea Software Industry Association

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    2014

  • 12

    Awarded the Special Prize in the Korea ICT INNOVATION Awards in 2014

  • 09

    Awarded the Contents Service Quality Certification in 2014 (Ziny.NEWS)

  • 08

    Signed the OEM Agreement for SearchBox with Cosmo Tech, Japan

  • 06

    Moved Saltlux head office to Yeoksam-dong

  • 02

    Established 'ODI Seoul' by signing an agreement with ODI, professional organization of Open Data

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    2015

  • 12

    Launched IN2 4.0, Saltlux Artificial Intelligence Search Engine

  • 11

    Awarded the Patent Management Grand Prize in 2015 by the Korea Software Industry Association

    Launched a new product, Saltlux Real-Time Big Data Analysis and Prediction Platform 2.0

  • 10

    Held the Experts’ Talk Relay, ‘Core Technologies and Prospect of Artificial Intelligence’

  • 09

    Selected as the company to build a multilingual language voice database for Saltlux Smart Mobile

  • 06

    The 2nd Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning visited the Artificial Intelligence R&D Site and held a meeting

    Apple App Store selected Saltlux's 'Ziny.NEWS' as 'A Beautiful App that Enhances Korea'

  • 05

    Signed MOU for Multilingual NLP Research with Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

  • 01

    Signed MOU with GCS (Global cyber soft Inc.)

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    2013

  • 12

    Acquired the STORM SOR GS (Good Software) Certification

    Ziny.NEWS was awarded the Grand Prize in the Broadcasting/News category in the Smart App Awards in 2013

    Awarded the Presidential Award and became a Certified Family-Friendly Company in 2013

  • 11

    Ziny.NEWS awarded the KT Prize in the 13th Mobile Technology Awards

  • 03

    Launched STORM SSAMZIE 2.0, Social Search & Organizational Relation Network Engine

  • 02

    Ziny.NEWS was registered and launched with the App Store

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    2012

  • 12

    Ziny.US was awarded the Grand Prize in the Information Service category in the 2012 Smart App Awards

  • 11

    Launched VOC (Voice of Customer) Analysis Engine for Companies and Government Institutes

  • 10

    Ziny.US was registered and launched with the App Store

  • 09

    The Big Data Analysis Platform was awarded the Prime Minister Prize in the Innovative Technology Show

  • 02

    Opened ‘True Story Season 1 - Politicians’, Big Data Analysis Service

  • 01

    Discovery was selected as a Software for Administrative Services

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    2011

  • 12

    Tony Lee was awarded the Order of Industrial Service Merit of Korea

  • 10

    BOTTARI won the First Prize Open Track in the Semantic Web Challenge organized by the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)

  • 08

    Launched 'DISCOVERY', Big Data Automatic Classification Engine

  • 05

    Signed the Business Cooperation and Joint Development of Semantic Technology with ontotext AD, Bulgaria

  • 02

    Tony Lee was elected the President of the KM & ECM Association

    Signed a Business Partnership Agreement with IWI (IntelligentWave Inc.), Japan

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    2010

  • 11

    Discovery was awarded the Presidential Prize in the 2010 Korea Software Awards

  • 06

    Discovery was awarded the Consumer Recommendation Prize in the Hit Products Search Engine Awards in the first half of 2010

  • 03

    Discovery was awarded the New Software Product Award in January and February

  • 02

    Discovery GS (Good Software) Certification acquired

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    2009

  • 12

    Tony Lee was awarded the Entrepreneur Prize in the Social Contribution Awards by Venture Companies

  • 08

    Signed the Business Partnership and Joint Development of Translation Document Management and Search Engine with ISE Inc., Japan

  • 07

    Signed the MOU for Business Partnership with Add-Him, a corporate specified on human network management solution

  • 06

    'DISCOVERY' SearchBox was awarded the Grand Prize in the Venture category in the Interop Tokyo 2009, the first Korean project to be awarded the prize

  • 02

    Signed the Sales Agreement of 'DISCOVERY' SearchBox with Samurize, Corporate Web Solution Company, Japan

    Opened the Vietnam Development Center (VDC)

  • history

    2008

  • 11

    Signed the Exclusive Distribution Agreement of ShadoCMS in the Asia Pacific Region with Straker Interactive Limited

  • 10

    Selected the Promising S&M-sized Enterprise

  • 07

    Signed the Business Partnership and Joint Development with ISE (Information System Engineering), Japan

  • 06

    Signed a Business Partnership Agreement with Across Systems GmbH, Europe’s Largest Translation Management Solution Company

  • 05

    Certified MAIN-BIZ

  • 01

    Opened a Branch Office in Japan

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    2006

  • 06

    Attracted Investment from JAFCO, Global Investment Company

    Tony Lee took office as the representative director

  • 01

    Launched 'DISCOVERY', Asia’s First Semantic Web Search Engine

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    2005

  • 12

    Certified INNO-BIZ

  • 10

    Signed a Business Partnership Agreement with ontoprise GmbH, Leading Company in Semantic Web Technologies

  • 08

    Established a local office in Chengdu, China

    Mobico & Sysmeta was renamed Saltlux Inc., and its Head Office was moved to Daechi-dong

  • history

    2004~1979

  • 2004~1979

    'DISCOVERY', Next Generation Search Engine won the Ministry of Information and Communication New Software Award

  • 2003.09

    Acquired ISO9001, 2000 Certification, the first in the industry

  • 2003.03

    Completed the merge of Mobico International Inc. and Sysmeta Inc. and changed its company name to Mobico & Sysmeta Inc.

  • 2001.01

    Registered as a venture company and became designated as the special exemption from service enterprise

  • 1994.03

    Established Mobico UK Inc., a local corporation in Europe

  • 1990.12

    Produced a Multilingual Manual for Export Vehicles, the first in the industry

  • 1988.10

    Provided the country’s first Technical Writing Service (4 computer manufacturers in the country)

  • 1979.06

    Established Mobico Inc., the country’s first technology translation and electronic publishing company