
Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced on the 13th that it has been selected as a '2025 Emerging AI+X Top 100' company for the fifth consecutive year.
'Emerging AI+X Top 100' is hosted by the Korea Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (Chairman Jang Hong-seong) under the Ministry of Science and ICT. It selects the top 100 domestic companies that are expected to lead future innovation through the convergence of technology (AI) and industry (X) as emerging companies with even greater future value. This year, AI experts from academia, industry, research, and government, as well as VC investors, selected approximately 2,340 companies into 10 fields by industry (Industry) and 8 fields of convergence industry (Cross-Industry), focusing on the future value of technology and industry, such as the company's growth potential and innovation.
FortytwoMaru has been selected as a leading company in the field of NLP-based AI Platform, the source technology of language artificial intelligence, in the Cross-Industry sector, and has been selected for the 'Emerging AI+X Top 100' for five consecutive years. The company has been leading the commercialization of AI by consistently creating various successful cases by applying LLM42, a lightweight language model specialized in various specialized industries, and RAG42, the core of utilizing ultra-large language models, including the source technology of language artificial intelligence, to the industry, and has been named in the Cross-Industry sector for five consecutive years.
FortyTwoMaru is a generative AI startup that develops and services a lightweight model LLM42 specialized in specialized industries by mitigating the hallucination phenomenon, a shortcoming of ultra-large language models, through engineering with RAG42, a search augmentation generation technology, and MRC42, an AI reading technology. It supports private mode for enterprises, so you can safely utilize ultra-large AI without worrying about internal corporate data and sensitive customer information leaks, and you can drastically reduce the costs of solution construction, learning, and serving.
FortyTwoMaru CEO Kim Dong-hwan said, “I believe that being selected for the ‘Emerging AI+X Top 100’ for five consecutive years is a recognition of FortyTwoMaru’s technological prowess and industrial innovation capabilities. In particular, we were highly evaluated for our continued achievements as a leading company in language artificial intelligence in the convergence industry.” He emphasized, “We will continue to provide solutions specialized for various industries based on FortyTwoMaru’s core technologies such as LLM42 and RAG42, and lead the way beyond the commercialization of ultra-large-scale AI to a sustainable AI industry.”
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