Upstage AI: 'Babel's Interpreter' Revolutionizes Document Language Unification

## The Future Drawn by AI, Upstage is Changing the World Great turning points in human history have always been led by technology. And now, artificial intelligence stands tall at its center. The company raising this immense wave of revolution starting from Korea is Upstage. CEO Kim Seong-hoon presents a firm vision to redefine the paradigm of labor by increasing humanity's work efficiency by more than 100 times through AI, and to establish a new global standard. The confidence of CEO Kim Seong-hoon, a former professor at HKUST and head of Naver Clova AI, stems from Upstage's overwhelming technological prowess. Upstage has established itself as a 'national AI company' by sweeping gold medals at the Kaggle competition, dubbed the 'AI Olympics', and in the field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), it secured first place, surpassing global big tech companies like Amazon and NVIDIA. The attraction of investments totaling 131.6 billion KRW also proves the market's fervent expectations. Upstage's core weapon is 'Document Parse (DP)', which accurately processes complex unstructured document data. It grasps the essence of even multi-column structured documents that general AI struggles with, extracting key information, and is receiving great acclaim, especially in the financial industry where the accuracy of document interpretation is crucial. Furthermore, its self-developed large language model (LLM) 'Solar' boasts the best benchmark performance in Korea, and in June, it plans to unveil 'Solar Pro 1.5', equipped with 'Chain-of-Thought (CoT)' reasoning capabilities. Full-stack technology, encompassing all AI domains from OCR to LLM, is a rare achievement in the global market. Upstage continues its innovation with 'Solar DocVLLM', a multimodal VLM combining DP and Solar. This model, which has dramatically improved its ability to process long documents over 100 pages, shows higher accuracy than competing models from Meta and Google, even in its development stage, heralding a new era of 'integrated information processing'. Upstage's ambition extends beyond Korea to the world. It established the first Thai-language-specialized 'Sovereign AI' by a Korean startup in Thailand, and following the US, it opened a Tokyo office in Japan, accelerating its penetration into the Asian market. The Japanese AI solution market has the potential to grow to a size of 17 trillion KRW by 2030. CEO Kim Seong-hoon emphasizes that even if AI increases the work productivity of Korea's economically active population by just 1%, it can create an economic value of 14 trillion KRW annually. Ultimately, Upstage's goal is to create a better future not with 'AI that replaces people', but with 'AI that allows people to focus on more valuable work'. To this end, it provides AI solutions free of charge to educational institutions and hospitals in collaboration with AWS, and invests generously in fostering AI talent through hackathons and joint research. The day is not far when Upstage's AI revolution, which began in Korea, will expand through Southeast Asia and Japan to the US market, redefining the way work is done worldwide. Upstage's bold challenge has just begun.