Superb AI (CEO Hyunsoo Kim), a vision AI specialized company, announced on the 5th that it will participate in the LG AI Research Institute consortium, which was selected as one of the top 5 in the 'AI Foundation Model' construction project hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
Superb AI is the only non-LG affiliate participating in the consortium as a model developer, and will be responsible for designing and building a data foundation for implementing multimodal AI and physical AI. Specifically, it will select and synthesize data collected from complex environments, including visual, natural language, and behavioral, and structure it into a learnable form.
This project will be operated based on a "Moving Target" strategy, with the goal of narrowing the performance gap with the world's best models over a six-month to one-year cycle. The government has set a key goal of developing a domestically representative, ultra-large AI model over the next three years.
The LG AI Research Consortium is moving away from a large-scale language model (LLM)-centric approach and embracing a strategy focused on developing vision language models (VLMs), multimodality, and physical AI. Physical AI is an AI technology that comprehensively interprets visual and linguistic information and uses this information to directly interact with the real world. It is expected to find application in diverse industries, including robotics, manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare.
Within this consortium, Superbrain AI will support the development of technologies that form the basis of physical AI, such as three-dimensional spatial understanding, autonomous judgment, and interaction with objects, and will also contribute to the expansion of the ecosystem by open-sourcing related multimodal data.
The company previously developed "ZERO," Korea's first industrial vision foundation model. This general-purpose AI model can achieve high performance even with small data sets, making it applicable to a variety of visual tasks without additional training. ZERO ranked first in industrial AI benchmark tests, beating out leading global models, and placed second in the CVPR 2025 Challenge.
Superb AI has currently provided solutions to over 100 companies, including Samsung, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motor Company, Qualcomm, and SK Telecom, and has operations in Korea, the US, and Japan. To date, the company has attracted a total of 49 billion won in cumulative investment and holds 31 patents.
CEO Kim Hyun-soo said, “This participation in the consortium is an important opportunity for Superb AI to expand beyond vision AI into the multimodal and physical AI fields,” and added, “We will contribute to Korea securing technological leadership in the era of physical AI.”
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