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2024

  • Jul 12
    Joined the K-AI Alliance
  • May 29, 2024 - May 31, 2024
    Attended ATxSG CommunicAsia 2024 (Singapore)
  • May 16, 2024 - May 17, 2024
    Attended AWS Summit Seoul 2024
  • Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 21, 2024
    Presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2024
    On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
  • Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
  • Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
  • Jan 8
    Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year

2023

  • Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023
    Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
  • Oct 10
    Launched the World-first Fractional GPU-based commercial AI inference
  • Sep 12
    Official release of LLM + FastTrack
  • Sep 1, 2023 - Sep 5, 2023
    Attended IFA 2023 (Berlin)
  • Jun 27
    Started Korea's first NPU-based cloud service
  • Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2023
    Attended Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG)
  • Apr 20
    Series A funded
    LB Investment, K2 Investment, IBK, Daesung Private Equity et al., USD 8.5M
  • Feb 27, 2023 - Mar 2, 2023
    Attended MWC 2023 (Barcelona)
  • Jan 5
    Attended CES 2023 (Las Vegas)

2022

  • Dec 28
    'Backend.AI Enterprise' certified as an outstanding R&D innovative product by Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • Dec 14
    Certified as an excellent family-friendly company by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
  • Nov 23
    Certified as INNOBIZ by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • Nov 23
    Ministry of Science and Technology Telecommunications ICT Fund Business Excellence Creation Company Awarded by the President of the Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation Institute
  • Nov 1
    Implemented and delivered the world's first ultra-fast GPU data I/O GPUDirect Storage technology on container cluster
  • Nov 1
    Released the Backend.AI AI/MLOps Platform "FastTrack"
  • Oct 26
    Attended Japan IT Week Autumn 2022
  • Sep 29
    Attended 2022 International hospital and medical device industry fairs
  • Sep 15
    Attended Digital Innovation Conference 2022
  • Aug 29
    Launched the initial version of Backend.AI Forklift
  • Apr 13
    Attended AI EXPO Korea 2022
  • Mar 24
    GTC 2022 MLOps session talk
    MLOps Platforms, NVIDIA Tech Integrations to Scale for AI and ML Development
  • Mar 22
    Selected as NVIDIA AI Accelerated Program Partner

2021

  • Dec 22
    Awarded the Digital Healthcare Commendation, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Rep. of Korea
    Eunjin Hwang, Lead researcher of Lablup Inc.
  • Apr 21
    Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
  • Apr 13
    NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software partner
    The First in Asia & Pacific
  • Jan 4
    'Backend.AI' GS certification (1st grade)
    Backend.AI Enterprise R2

2020

  • Nov 26
    Awarded the Presidential Award for SW Quality, Korean organization of SW standardization, testing and certification
    Backend.AI Enterprise
  • Oct 5
    GTC 2020 Session Talk (Featured Speaker (Korea))
  • Jun 25
    Selected as a start-up program for cooperation with enterprises by the Ministry of Science and ICT
  • Jun 8
    Started an open-beta service of Backend.AI Cloud (Personal version)
  • May 22
    Agreement on AI & High Performance Computing (HPC) research cooperation by Lablup-POSTECH
  • May 15
    Started 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2' (20.03-based) beta test
  • Jan 15
    Released 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2'
    Based on Backend.AI 19.09.15

2019

  • Dec 20
    Selected as an excellent open source project by NIPA (Backend.AI Pipeline)
  • Dec 4
    Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
  • Dec 4
    Awarded the Ministerial Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
  • Nov 22
    Cloud computing service quality/performance certification of 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    NIPA (tester: KACI and TTA)
  • Nov 5
    Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    TTA
  • Nov 5
    Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
  • Sep 30
    Released 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    Backend.AI Enterprise R1 released together
  • Aug 1
    Launched 'Backend.AI Cloud' Beta
  • Jun 1
    'Backend.AI Enterprise' goes to the market
  • Mar 18
    NVIDIA GTC 2019 technical session talk
    2 sessions (ML and DGX)
  • Mar 10
    Released 'Backend.AI 19.03'
  • Mar 1
    Started PoC supply of 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
  • Jan 16
    "Just Model It" Machine Learning modeling contest
    With NVIDIA

2018

  • Nov 26
    Received Presidential Citation for Contribution to SW Industry Development
    Jeongkyu Shin, Lead of Lablup Inc.
  • Nov 8
    Won NVIDIA AI Conference Inception Award
  • Nov 1
    Started research on Backend.AI expansion of high-performance computing solutions with POSTECH
  • Sep 1
    Released 'Backend.AI 1.4'
    With Global-first Fractional GPU
  • Jul 25
    AWS Partner Network
    As AWS Select Tier technology partner
  • May 29
    AWS Partner Network
    AWS Technology Partner
  • May 15
    NVIDIA Inception Program
    Member
  • May 1
    Selected as a national core competency task (GPU cloud core technology) by IITP
  • Mar 15
    Launched 'CodeOnWeb for ML/Enterprise' and 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
  • Mar 1
    KEB Hana Bank 1Q Agile Lab. Member

2017

  • Dec 15
    Selected as an excellent open source project (NIPA)
    Sorna Framework
  • Nov 17
    Collaborated on Microsoft Azure Hackfest
    Backend.AI + Microsoft R
  • Nov 5
    Launched B2B Backend.AI API cloud
  • Nov 3
    Released the official version of 'Backend.AI' / Introduced as a national open source project in Korea, China and Japan
  • Jun 5
    Pre-series A funded (Kakao Ventures / Stonebridge Capital)
  • May 1
    Google Campus Residency
    Machine Learning Field

2016

  • Dec 1
    Selected as Naver D2Startup supported startup
    Machine Learning / BigData Field
  • Jun 1
    Selected as an open source support project by NIPA
    Sorna Framework
  • Mar 30
    D.Day pitch Winner / hosted by D.Camp
    CodeOnWeb Platform

2015

  • Nov 4
    Started 'Backend.AI Alpha' / 'CodeOnWeb' beta
    With TensorFlow 0.4 introduction with web-based live course
  • Aug 18
    Debut of 'Sorna' (Research data / Machine Learning modeling framework) prototype
    PyCon KR 2015
  • Apr 20
    Our great journey begins!

2024

  • Jul 12
    Joined the K-AI Alliance
  • May 29, 2024 - May 31, 2024
    Attended ATxSG CommunicAsia 2024 (Singapore)
  • May 16, 2024 - May 17, 2024
    Attended AWS Summit Seoul 2024
  • Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 21, 2024
    Presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2024
    On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
  • Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
  • Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
  • Jan 8
    Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year

2023

  • Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023
    Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
  • Oct 10
    Launched the World-first Fractional GPU-based commercial AI inference
  • Sep 12
    Official release of LLM + FastTrack
  • Sep 1, 2023 - Sep 5, 2023
    Attended IFA 2023 (Berlin)
  • Jun 27
    Started Korea's first NPU-based cloud service
  • Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2023
    Attended Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG)
  • Apr 20
    Series A funded
    LB Investment, K2 Investment, IBK, Daesung Private Equity et al., USD 8.5M
  • Feb 27, 2023 - Mar 2, 2023
    Attended MWC 2023 (Barcelona)
  • Jan 5
    Attended CES 2023 (Las Vegas)

2022

  • Dec 28
    'Backend.AI Enterprise' certified as an outstanding R&D innovative product by Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • Dec 14
    Certified as an excellent family-friendly company by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
  • Nov 23
    Certified as INNOBIZ by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • Nov 23
    Ministry of Science and Technology Telecommunications ICT Fund Business Excellence Creation Company Awarded by the President of the Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation Institute
  • Nov 1
    Implemented and delivered the world's first ultra-fast GPU data I/O GPUDirect Storage technology on container cluster
  • Nov 1
    Released the Backend.AI AI/MLOps Platform "FastTrack"
  • Oct 26
    Attended Japan IT Week Autumn 2022
  • Sep 29
    Attended 2022 International hospital and medical device industry fairs
  • Sep 15
    Attended Digital Innovation Conference 2022
  • Aug 29
    Launched the initial version of Backend.AI Forklift
  • Apr 13
    Attended AI EXPO Korea 2022
  • Mar 24
    GTC 2022 MLOps session talk
    MLOps Platforms, NVIDIA Tech Integrations to Scale for AI and ML Development
  • Mar 22
    Selected as NVIDIA AI Accelerated Program Partner

2021

  • Dec 22
    Awarded the Digital Healthcare Commendation, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Rep. of Korea
    Eunjin Hwang, Lead researcher of Lablup Inc.
  • Apr 21
    Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
  • Apr 13
    NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software partner
    The First in Asia & Pacific
  • Jan 4
    'Backend.AI' GS certification (1st grade)
    Backend.AI Enterprise R2

2020

  • Nov 26
    Awarded the Presidential Award for SW Quality, Korean organization of SW standardization, testing and certification
    Backend.AI Enterprise
  • Oct 5
    GTC 2020 Session Talk (Featured Speaker (Korea))
  • Jun 25
    Selected as a start-up program for cooperation with enterprises by the Ministry of Science and ICT
  • Jun 8
    Started an open-beta service of Backend.AI Cloud (Personal version)
  • May 22
    Agreement on AI & High Performance Computing (HPC) research cooperation by Lablup-POSTECH
  • May 15
    Started 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2' (20.03-based) beta test
  • Jan 15
    Released 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2'
    Based on Backend.AI 19.09.15

2019

  • Dec 20
    Selected as an excellent open source project by NIPA (Backend.AI Pipeline)
  • Dec 4
    Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
  • Dec 4
    Awarded the Ministerial Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
  • Nov 22
    Cloud computing service quality/performance certification of 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    NIPA (tester: KACI and TTA)
  • Nov 5
    Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    TTA
  • Nov 5
    Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
  • Sep 30
    Released 'Backend.AI 19.09'
    Backend.AI Enterprise R1 released together
  • Aug 1
    Launched 'Backend.AI Cloud' Beta
  • Jun 1
    'Backend.AI Enterprise' goes to the market
  • Mar 18
    NVIDIA GTC 2019 technical session talk
    2 sessions (ML and DGX)
  • Mar 10
    Released 'Backend.AI 19.03'
  • Mar 1
    Started PoC supply of 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
  • Jan 16
    "Just Model It" Machine Learning modeling contest
    With NVIDIA

2018

  • Nov 26
    Received Presidential Citation for Contribution to SW Industry Development
    Jeongkyu Shin, Lead of Lablup Inc.
  • Nov 8
    Won NVIDIA AI Conference Inception Award
  • Nov 1
    Started research on Backend.AI expansion of high-performance computing solutions with POSTECH
  • Sep 1
    Released 'Backend.AI 1.4'
    With Global-first Fractional GPU
  • Jul 25
    AWS Partner Network
    As AWS Select Tier technology partner
  • May 29
    AWS Partner Network
    AWS Technology Partner
  • May 15
    NVIDIA Inception Program
    Member
  • May 1
    Selected as a national core competency task (GPU cloud core technology) by IITP
  • Mar 15
    Launched 'CodeOnWeb for ML/Enterprise' and 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
  • Mar 1
    KEB Hana Bank 1Q Agile Lab. Member

2017

  • Dec 15
    Selected as an excellent open source project (NIPA)
    Sorna Framework
  • Nov 17
    Collaborated on Microsoft Azure Hackfest
    Backend.AI + Microsoft R
  • Nov 5
    Launched B2B Backend.AI API cloud
  • Nov 3
    Released the official version of 'Backend.AI' / Introduced as a national open source project in Korea, China and Japan
  • Jun 5
    Pre-series A funded (Kakao Ventures / Stonebridge Capital)
  • May 1
    Google Campus Residency
    Machine Learning Field

2016

  • Dec 1
    Selected as Naver D2Startup supported startup
    Machine Learning / BigData Field
  • Jun 1
    Selected as an open source support project by NIPA
    Sorna Framework
  • Mar 30
    D.Day pitch Winner / hosted by D.Camp
    CodeOnWeb Platform

2015

  • Nov 4
    Started 'Backend.AI Alpha' / 'CodeOnWeb' beta
    With TensorFlow 0.4 introduction with web-based live course
  • Aug 18
    Debut of 'Sorna' (Research data / Machine Learning modeling framework) prototype
    PyCon KR 2015
  • Apr 20
    Our great journey begins!
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