Generative AI startup 42Maru (CEO Dong-Hwan Kim) announced on the 31st that it will participate as a joint research institute in the project titled ‘Development of Defense Industry Language Model and Korean Design Automation Model Technology to Enhance Manufacturing Competitiveness’, which is being promoted as part of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s ‘Knowledge Service Industry Technology Development Project.’
This project aims to improve design productivity in the defense industry. Its primary objective is to integrate defense-specific language models and design automation technologies, based on Dassault Systèmes' global design tools CATIA and AutoCAD. The project period is 57 months, from 2025 to 2029, and the project size is KRW 11.6 billion.
This project is being led by Izpark, with Forti2Maru, Doptech, and Gyeongsang National University participating as joint research institutions. Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and Ire Industries, among others, will participate as demanders, conducting demonstrations and implementing the technology. Named "KAIDA (Korea Artificial Intelligence Defense Design & Automation)," the project aims to simultaneously improve design speed and accuracy by applying artificial intelligence (AI) to complex design areas such as airframe structures, flight performance, and engine systems in the aerospace and defense industry.
During the project, Forti2Maru will develop a defense-specific language model and a search-augmented generation (RAG)-based system. This will support the entire design engineering cycle, including automatic generation of design commands, verification of compliance with design specifications and regulations, and integration with CAD modeling. Based on its LLM42 and RAG42 technologies, Forti2Maru will implement a design automation module that can be integrated with CATIA and AutoCAD, and will also feature automatic interpretation capabilities for defense drawings and technical documents.
Forty2Maru has developed a variety of industry-specific language models based on generative AI technology. It focuses on enhancing the accuracy of its massive language models by leveraging core technologies such as Augmented Search Generation (RAG) and Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC). Furthermore, it offers private modes and lightweight models for enterprises, supporting ways to protect sensitive data and increase cost efficiency.
Kim Dong-hwan, CEO of Forti2Maru, said, “This project is an opportunity to verify how generative AI can address the complexity and specialization of the actual defense design environment,” and added, “AI-based design automation can be a turning point that not only strengthens the defense sovereign AI capabilities, but also leads to its expansion into the manufacturing and engineering fields in the future.”
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