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2024
- Jul 12Joined the K-AI Alliance
- May 29, 2024 - May 31, 2024Attended ATxSG CommunicAsia 2024 (Singapore)
- May 16, 2024 - May 17, 2024Attended AWS Summit Seoul 2024
- Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 21, 2024Presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2024On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
- Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
- Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
- Jan 8Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year
2023
- Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
- Oct 10Launched the World-first Fractional GPU-based commercial AI inference
- Sep 12Official release of LLM + FastTrack
- Sep 1, 2023 - Sep 5, 2023Attended IFA 2023 (Berlin)
- Jun 27Started Korea's first NPU-based cloud service
- Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2023Attended Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG)
- Apr 20Series A fundedLB Investment, K2 Investment, IBK, Daesung Private Equity et al., USD 8.5M
- Feb 27, 2023 - Mar 2, 2023Attended MWC 2023 (Barcelona)
- Jan 5Attended 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 14Certified as an excellent family-friendly company by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
- Nov 23Certified as INNOBIZ by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
- Nov 23Ministry 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 1Implemented and delivered the world's first ultra-fast GPU data I/O GPUDirect Storage technology on container cluster
- Nov 1Released the Backend.AI AI/MLOps Platform "FastTrack"
- Oct 26Attended Japan IT Week Autumn 2022
- Sep 29Attended 2022 International hospital and medical device industry fairs
- Sep 15Attended Digital Innovation Conference 2022
- Aug 29Launched the initial version of Backend.AI Forklift
- Apr 13Attended AI EXPO Korea 2022
- Mar 24GTC 2022 MLOps session talkMLOps Platforms, NVIDIA Tech Integrations to Scale for AI and ML Development
- Mar 22Selected as NVIDIA AI Accelerated Program Partner
2021
- Dec 22Awarded the Digital Healthcare Commendation, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Rep. of KoreaEunjin Hwang, Lead researcher of Lablup Inc.
- Apr 21Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
- Apr 13NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software partnerThe First in Asia & Pacific
- Jan 4'Backend.AI' GS certification (1st grade)Backend.AI Enterprise R2
2020
- Nov 26Awarded the Presidential Award for SW Quality, Korean organization of SW standardization, testing and certificationBackend.AI Enterprise
- Oct 5GTC 2020 Session Talk (Featured Speaker (Korea))
- Jun 25Selected as a start-up program for cooperation with enterprises by the Ministry of Science and ICT
- Jun 8Started an open-beta service of Backend.AI Cloud (Personal version)
- May 22Agreement on AI & High Performance Computing (HPC) research cooperation by Lablup-POSTECH
- May 15Started 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2' (20.03-based) beta test
- Jan 15Released 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2'Based on Backend.AI 19.09.15
2019
- Dec 20Selected as an excellent open source project by NIPA (Backend.AI Pipeline)
- Dec 4Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
- Dec 4Awarded the Ministerial Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
- Nov 22Cloud computing service quality/performance certification of 'Backend.AI 19.09'NIPA (tester: KACI and TTA)
- Nov 5Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'TTA
- Nov 5Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
- Sep 30Released 'Backend.AI 19.09'Backend.AI Enterprise R1 released together
- Aug 1Launched 'Backend.AI Cloud' Beta
- Jun 1'Backend.AI Enterprise' goes to the market
- Mar 18NVIDIA GTC 2019 technical session talk2 sessions (ML and DGX)
- Mar 10Released 'Backend.AI 19.03'
- Mar 1Started PoC supply of 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
- Jan 16"Just Model It" Machine Learning modeling contestWith NVIDIA
2018
- Nov 26Received Presidential Citation for Contribution to SW Industry DevelopmentJeongkyu Shin, Lead of Lablup Inc.
- Nov 8Won NVIDIA AI Conference Inception Award
- Nov 1Started research on Backend.AI expansion of high-performance computing solutions with POSTECH
- Sep 1Released 'Backend.AI 1.4'With Global-first Fractional GPU
- Jul 25AWS Partner NetworkAs AWS Select Tier technology partner
- May 29AWS Partner NetworkAWS Technology Partner
- May 15NVIDIA Inception ProgramMember
- May 1Selected as a national core competency task (GPU cloud core technology) by IITP
- Mar 15Launched 'CodeOnWeb for ML/Enterprise' and 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
- Mar 1KEB Hana Bank 1Q Agile Lab. Member
2017
- Dec 15Selected as an excellent open source project (NIPA)Sorna Framework
- Nov 17Collaborated on Microsoft Azure HackfestBackend.AI + Microsoft R
- Nov 5Launched B2B Backend.AI API cloud
- Nov 3Released the official version of 'Backend.AI' / Introduced as a national open source project in Korea, China and Japan
- Jun 5Pre-series A funded (Kakao Ventures / Stonebridge Capital)
- May 1Google Campus ResidencyMachine Learning Field
2016
- Dec 1Selected as Naver D2Startup supported startupMachine Learning / BigData Field
- Jun 1Selected as an open source support project by NIPASorna Framework
- Mar 30D.Day pitch Winner / hosted by D.CampCodeOnWeb Platform
2015
- Nov 4Started 'Backend.AI Alpha' / 'CodeOnWeb' betaWith TensorFlow 0.4 introduction with web-based live course
- Aug 18Debut of 'Sorna' (Research data / Machine Learning modeling framework) prototypePyCon KR 2015
- Apr 20Our great journey begins!
2024
- Jul 12Joined the K-AI Alliance
- May 29, 2024 - May 31, 2024Attended ATxSG CommunicAsia 2024 (Singapore)
- May 16, 2024 - May 17, 2024Attended AWS Summit Seoul 2024
- Mar 18, 2024 - Mar 21, 2024Presentation at NVIDIA GTC 2024On-premis + Hybrid base OnDevice AI system
- Feb 26, 2024 - Feb 29, 2024
- Jan 9, 2024 - Jan 12, 2024
- Jan 8Selected as 2024 Emerging AI+X Top100 by AIIA, for the second consecutive year
2023
- Nov 12, 2023 - Nov 17, 2023Attended SC23 (Denver, CO)
- Oct 10Launched the World-first Fractional GPU-based commercial AI inference
- Sep 12Official release of LLM + FastTrack
- Sep 1, 2023 - Sep 5, 2023Attended IFA 2023 (Berlin)
- Jun 27Started Korea's first NPU-based cloud service
- Jun 7, 2023 - Jun 9, 2023Attended Asia Tech x Singapore (ATxSG)
- Apr 20Series A fundedLB Investment, K2 Investment, IBK, Daesung Private Equity et al., USD 8.5M
- Feb 27, 2023 - Mar 2, 2023Attended MWC 2023 (Barcelona)
- Jan 5Attended 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 14Certified as an excellent family-friendly company by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
- Nov 23Certified as INNOBIZ by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
- Nov 23Ministry 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 1Implemented and delivered the world's first ultra-fast GPU data I/O GPUDirect Storage technology on container cluster
- Nov 1Released the Backend.AI AI/MLOps Platform "FastTrack"
- Oct 26Attended Japan IT Week Autumn 2022
- Sep 29Attended 2022 International hospital and medical device industry fairs
- Sep 15Attended Digital Innovation Conference 2022
- Aug 29Launched the initial version of Backend.AI Forklift
- Apr 13Attended AI EXPO Korea 2022
- Mar 24GTC 2022 MLOps session talkMLOps Platforms, NVIDIA Tech Integrations to Scale for AI and ML Development
- Mar 22Selected as NVIDIA AI Accelerated Program Partner
2021
- Dec 22Awarded the Digital Healthcare Commendation, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, Rep. of KoreaEunjin Hwang, Lead researcher of Lablup Inc.
- Apr 21Selected as Purestorage TAP (Technology Alliance Partners)
- Apr 13NVIDIA DGX-Ready Software partnerThe First in Asia & Pacific
- Jan 4'Backend.AI' GS certification (1st grade)Backend.AI Enterprise R2
2020
- Nov 26Awarded the Presidential Award for SW Quality, Korean organization of SW standardization, testing and certificationBackend.AI Enterprise
- Oct 5GTC 2020 Session Talk (Featured Speaker (Korea))
- Jun 25Selected as a start-up program for cooperation with enterprises by the Ministry of Science and ICT
- Jun 8Started an open-beta service of Backend.AI Cloud (Personal version)
- May 22Agreement on AI & High Performance Computing (HPC) research cooperation by Lablup-POSTECH
- May 15Started 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2' (20.03-based) beta test
- Jan 15Released 'Backend.AI Enterprise R2'Based on Backend.AI 19.09.15
2019
- Dec 20Selected as an excellent open source project by NIPA (Backend.AI Pipeline)
- Dec 4Awarded the Ministerial Award for Internet in Innovative Technology, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
- Dec 4Awarded the Ministerial Commendation for Open-source Software, Ministry of Science and ICT, Rep. of Korea
- Nov 22Cloud computing service quality/performance certification of 'Backend.AI 19.09'NIPA (tester: KACI and TTA)
- Nov 5Software certification on 'Backend.AI 19.09'TTA
- Nov 5Launched NBP-based Backend.AI Enterprise SaaS
- Sep 30Released 'Backend.AI 19.09'Backend.AI Enterprise R1 released together
- Aug 1Launched 'Backend.AI Cloud' Beta
- Jun 1'Backend.AI Enterprise' goes to the market
- Mar 18NVIDIA GTC 2019 technical session talk2 sessions (ML and DGX)
- Mar 10Released 'Backend.AI 19.03'
- Mar 1Started PoC supply of 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
- Jan 16"Just Model It" Machine Learning modeling contestWith NVIDIA
2018
- Nov 26Received Presidential Citation for Contribution to SW Industry DevelopmentJeongkyu Shin, Lead of Lablup Inc.
- Nov 8Won NVIDIA AI Conference Inception Award
- Nov 1Started research on Backend.AI expansion of high-performance computing solutions with POSTECH
- Sep 1Released 'Backend.AI 1.4'With Global-first Fractional GPU
- Jul 25AWS Partner NetworkAs AWS Select Tier technology partner
- May 29AWS Partner NetworkAWS Technology Partner
- May 15NVIDIA Inception ProgramMember
- May 1Selected as a national core competency task (GPU cloud core technology) by IITP
- Mar 15Launched 'CodeOnWeb for ML/Enterprise' and 'Backend.AI Enterprise'
- Mar 1KEB Hana Bank 1Q Agile Lab. Member
2017
- Dec 15Selected as an excellent open source project (NIPA)Sorna Framework
- Nov 17Collaborated on Microsoft Azure HackfestBackend.AI + Microsoft R
- Nov 5Launched B2B Backend.AI API cloud
- Nov 3Released the official version of 'Backend.AI' / Introduced as a national open source project in Korea, China and Japan
- Jun 5Pre-series A funded (Kakao Ventures / Stonebridge Capital)
- May 1Google Campus ResidencyMachine Learning Field
2016
- Dec 1Selected as Naver D2Startup supported startupMachine Learning / BigData Field
- Jun 1Selected as an open source support project by NIPASorna Framework
- Mar 30D.Day pitch Winner / hosted by D.CampCodeOnWeb Platform
2015
- Nov 4Started 'Backend.AI Alpha' / 'CodeOnWeb' betaWith TensorFlow 0.4 introduction with web-based live course
- Aug 18Debut of 'Sorna' (Research data / Machine Learning modeling framework) prototypePyCon KR 2015
- Apr 20Our great journey begins!