Pluto (CEO Lee Jeong-su), an artificial intelligence (AI) data and solution company, announced on the 12th through a public disclosure that it achieved sales of KRW 36 billion and operating profit of KRW 6.2 billion on a consolidated basis in 2025, successfully turning an annual operating profit to black for the first time since its founding.
Sales increased 77% year-over-year, with an average growth rate of 40% over the past four years. Pluto achieved operating profit for six consecutive quarters since Q3 2024, successfully returning to profitability on an annual basis. The company attributed this growth to increased global sales of high-quality data for AI training and the increased profit contribution from its solutions business unit.
Over 65% of total sales come from exports, and major data sales clients are global big tech companies. Pluto has established its own production system for rare, copyright-free data, enabling it to mass-produce high-quality data. Furthermore, in response to the proliferation of physical AI, the company is securing voice and image data and is pursuing collaborations with companies in need of voice data.
Pluto is also expanding its data competitiveness in the domestic market. In January, Pluto entered the second phase of the "Independent AI Foundation Model Project (Dokpamo)" and is currently serving as the data manager for the Upstage Consortium. It has also completed services for public institutions such as the National Institute of the Korean Language, the National Institute of the Korean Language, and the Small and Medium Business Administration (SBA). With the anticipated expansion of government-led AI investment and the proliferation of private AI services in 2026, related demand is expected to increase.
The AI translation solution business is also showing growth. Last December, Pluto launched "Chat Translation," a real-time online meeting AI translation solution utilizing hyper-personalization technology. Building on the experience accumulated over the past two years, the company is seeing a rise in regular B2B customers, and anticipates expanding subscription-based recurring revenue through a strategy that leverages both B2B and B2C.
The company plans to strengthen synergies between its data and solutions businesses and fully advance into the global market in 2026. The strategy is to leverage specialized data from various domains acquired through the solutions business for retraining, thereby improving the quality of AI solutions such as translation and image recognition and enhancing personalized services. While expanding collaborations with technology companies in North America, the company is also pursuing partnerships with local state-owned enterprises and consortiums with domestic companies in the Arabic market.
“This turnaround to profitability is the result of continued profitability improvement,” said Yoon Min-yong, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Pluto. “We will focus on strengthening our financial structure and enhancing corporate value based on sales growth and operating profit.”
CEO Lee Jeong-su said, “We will actively target the global voice data and physical AI markets and systematize our data warehouse to strengthen the high-quality data production environment,” adding, “We will continue to grow through sales diversification and synergy between data and solutions.”
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