SK Telecom and Mars Auto will work to gather and analyze knowledge wanted to develop superior self-driving expertise
Korean’s largest cell operator, SK Telecom (SKT), signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a neighborhood autonomous car startup with the goal of collaborating on superior expertise for self-driving vans.
Mars Auto is a developer of AI-powered software program to run self-driving vans for freight transportation. The agency’s core resolution is Mars Pilot, a self-driving AI system that may make driving choices based mostly on machine studying utilizing seven cameras put in on a truck.
SKT and Mars Auto will work to gather and analyze knowledge wanted to develop superior self-driving expertise.
Bigger autos, comparable to vans, require AI software program to guage and anticipate site visitors situations utilizing real-time networks that switch knowledge instantaneously, given their dimension and higher braking distance, the telco famous.
Below the phrases of the deal, the Korean service plans to offer Mars Auto with improved connectivity based mostly on its 5G networks and share AI-related applied sciences.
The corporate goals to coach Mars Pilot utilizing 100 million kilometers of amassed highway knowledge aided by a real-time community offered by STK.
“We had been capable of purchase the infrastructure wanted to maximise the potential of our AI software program,” Mars Auto CEO Park Il-soo mentioned in an announcement. “We’ll create a safer, extra environment friendly driverless service.”
In the meantime, SKT’s Chung Seok-geun, the pinnacle of the corporate’s world and AI tech enterprise unit, mentioned the partnership will “quick ahead commercialization of AI-powered self-driving vans.”
Final month, SK Telecom introduced its ambition to turn into a world synthetic intelligence firm by strengthening its personal AI competitiveness and cooperating with companions globally.
SKT’s CEO Ryu Younger-sang unveiled the telco’s new ‘AI Pyramid Technique’ centered round three key areas together with AI Infrastructure, AI Transformation (AIX) and AI Service.
Below this new technique, Ryu mentioned that the service expects the proportion of AI-related funding to roughly triple from 12% over the previous 5 years to 33% over the subsequent 5 years.
The corporate famous that AI Infrastructure is an space the place SKT’s technological capabilities are concentrated. The world consists of AI knowledge facilities, AI semiconductors and multi LLM.
Going ahead, SKT additionally plans to leverage its AI service-related expertise and knowhow amassed within the Korean market to develop a private AI assistant service that may entice world prospects.
The corporate expects that its partnerships with numerous world gamers — together with the World Telco AI Alliance — will assist speed up its progress within the AI subject.