Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced on the 27th that it presented its vision for innovation in university education and fostering future convergence talents in the era of artificial intelligence (AX) transformation as a speaker at the '2026 First Half General Faculty Meeting' held at Daegu Catholic University (President Han-Ki Sung) on the 26th.
Held at Daegu Catholic University's Hyosung Campus, this event was a key academic event, bringing together President Sung Han-ki and the entire faculty leading the university. Forty2Maru CEO Kim Dong-hwan delivered a special lecture on "University Education Innovation in the Age of Generative AI," engaging in an in-depth discussion on the direction of AI education innovation that transcends academic boundaries.
In his lecture, CEO Kim emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary education that breaks down academic boundaries, as we enter an era of "AI normalization," where AI technology is no longer the exclusive domain of specialized specialists but rather a fundamental skill for all academic disciplines. He assessed the paradigm shift in university education brought about by generative AI and proposed innovative AI utilization methods that can be immediately applied in universities.
In fact, Forty2Maru is making a full-scale effort to cultivate future talent who will lead the Korean AI ecosystem. CEO Kim Dong-hwan, as a member of the "SW-focused University Curriculum Innovation Committee," played a pivotal role in designing a convergence curriculum for both software (SW) majors and non-software majors. Furthermore, he is participating in the "Generative AI Leading Talent Training Project," hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister Bae Kyung-hoon) and the Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP, President Hong Jin-bae), and is leading the way in fostering top-tier AI experts at the master's and doctoral levels, in collaboration with the AI (Convergence) Graduate Schools of Sungkyunkwan University, Inha University, Pusan National University, and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).
Forty2Maru, a generative AI startup, mitigates the hallucination phenomenon, a drawback of large-scale language models, by engineering them with RAG42, a search-augmented generation technology, and MRC42, an AI reading technology. The company is developing and servicing LLM42, a lightweight model specialized for specialized industries. Supporting Private Mode for enterprises, the platform allows companies to safely leverage large-scale AI without worrying about internal data and sensitive customer information leaks, dramatically reducing the costs associated with solution development, training, and serving.
Forty2Maru CEO Kim Dong-hwan said, “It is meaningful to share the future vision of educational innovation with professors at universities that are cultivating future talents who will lead the AI era,” and emphasized, “Based on our successful experience of AI transformation (AX) in the public and industrial fields, Forty2Maru will actively contribute to cultivating key talents who will become a strong foundation for K-AI competitiveness through close industry-academia cooperation with universities.”
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