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Kakao Brain said Monday that the company will be run by two CEOs, as the artificial intelligence (AI) arm of Kakao appointed its AI taskforce team leader Kim Byung-hak as CEO who will work with incumbent CEO Kim Il-doo. The company said it held a shareholders meeting to name Kim as co-CEO in a bid to develop hyperscale AI language and vertical AI service models.
Kakao users expressed their disappointment with ddmm, Kakao s new artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot service, which became unavailable Monday, just a day after the launch of its beta service. Although the Korean IT firm promised to resume the service soon, incorrect answers given by the chatbot caused concerns that the company may lose its ground amid the intensifying global competition to dominate the generative AI market.
Kakao has joined the boom of generative artificial intelligence (AI) services sparked by the explosive response to OpenAI s ChatGPT service, as its AI arm Kakao Brain will release the latest version of KoGPT, its own AI service, within the first half of this year, according to the company, Friday.
Kakao said Friday it will come up with a cost-effective artificial intelligence (AI) powered chatbot fluent in Korean and that it will collaborate with SM Entertainment to utilize K-pop content for the global expansion of both companies.