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2025

Mar 17, 2025 - Mar 21, 2025
Attended & Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2025
Resilient Edge-Cloud Hybrid AI Infrastructure, Universal NIM Acceleration With GPU-Sharing Containers
Mar 3, 2025 - Mar 6, 2025
Attended MWC 2025 (Barcelona)
Jan 7, 2025 - Jan 10, 2025
Attended CES 2025 (Las Vegas)

2024

Dec 11
Awarded Ministerial Award, Korean ICT Award
(Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea)
Dec 2, 2024 - Dec 2, 2024
Industrial Service Medal
Oct 17
Selected as Korea Promising AI Startup 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
Attended & Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2024
On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
Attended MWC2024 (Barcelona)
Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
Attended CES 2024 (Las Vegas)
Jan 8
Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year

2023

Nov 23
Awarded the Presidential Award for AI Reliability and Quality Award, Rep. of Korea
Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023
Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
Oct 21
Lablup's 3rd Conference "lab | up > /conf/3"
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
Dec 1
Lablup's 2nd Conference "lab | up > /conf/2"
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.
Nov 11
Lablup's 1st AI Future Conference "lab | up > /conf"
Apr 21
Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
Apr 13
NVIDIA DGX™-Ready Software partner
The First to be 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 Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
Dec 4
Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, 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
Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
Nov 5
Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'
TTA
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!

2025

Mar 17, 2025 - Mar 21, 2025
Attended & Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2025
Resilient Edge-Cloud Hybrid AI Infrastructure, Universal NIM Acceleration With GPU-Sharing Containers
Mar 3, 2025 - Mar 6, 2025
Attended MWC 2025 (Barcelona)
Jan 7, 2025 - Jan 10, 2025
Attended CES 2025 (Las Vegas)

2024

Dec 11
Awarded Ministerial Award, Korean ICT Award
(Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea)
Dec 2, 2024 - Dec 2, 2024
Industrial Service Medal
Oct 17
Selected as Korea Promising AI Startup 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
Attended & Presented at NVIDIA GTC 2024
On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
Attended MWC2024 (Barcelona)
Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
Attended CES 2024 (Las Vegas)
Jan 8
Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year

2023

Nov 23
Awarded the Presidential Award for AI Reliability and Quality Award, Rep. of Korea
Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023
Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
Oct 21
Lablup's 3rd Conference "lab | up > /conf/3"
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
Dec 1
Lablup's 2nd Conference "lab | up > /conf/2"
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.
Nov 11
Lablup's 1st AI Future Conference "lab | up > /conf"
Apr 21
Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
Apr 13
NVIDIA DGX™-Ready Software partner
The First to be 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 Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
Dec 4
Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, 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
Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
Nov 5
Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'
TTA
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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