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3, 2025— Upstage announced today that it has signed a joint agreement with Chosun Ilbo, the largest and most influential newspaper in Seoul.
This partnership marks the first time in South Korea that a leading AI company and a major media organization will jointly develop and deploy media-specialized AI solutions for commercial use.
Through this partnership, Chosun Ilbo plans to become the first Korean media outlet to integrate AI throughout its entire newspaper and digital news production processes.
Upstage will develop media-specific AI services powered by its proprietary large language model (LLM), SOLAR, while Chosun Ilbo will provide an extensive dataset that includes over 4.1 million articles spanning 105 years, a database of 350,000 individuals, and a wealth of English and Japanese news articles to support model training.
"With over 105 years of journalistic history, Chosun Ilbo’s data is an unparalleled treasure in both scale and credibility,"said Sung Kim, CEO of Upstage.
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