ITcen announced on the 27th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Telecom for cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) business.
Through this agreement, the two companies will jointly promote GPU-as-a-service (hereinafter referred to as GPUaaS) and AI cloud manager businesses. They plan to support enterprises and public institutions to efficiently introduce and utilize AI technology. They will also expand their position in the AI infrastructure market through differentiated cloud-based AI services. The goal of both companies is to create a generative AI ecosystem with enhanced data sovereignty.
GPUaaS is a cloud-based service that provides high-performance GPU infrastructure for AI and machine learning (ML) workloads. It supports companies to flexibly utilize GPU resources according to their needs.
ITcen will cooperate with SK Telecom's latest GPU-based GPUaaS business. Based on various customer experiences, it will help build cost-effective generative AI infrastructure tailored to corporate service requirements and AI workloads.
This allows companies to quickly introduce AI infrastructure, improve AI model learning and operation speed, and inference cost efficiency. Cloud services that can flexibly utilize high-performance GPU operations while reducing initial investment costs are also provided.
The two companies plan to pursue joint projects to expand GPU-based AI infrastructure and activate the market in the future. They plan to continuously expand cooperation in AI business, such as supporting customer work in various industrial fields and jointly building AI-based infrastructure and service ecosystems.
“ITCEN will actively utilize our partner ecosystem to strengthen sales of SK Telecom’s leading AI infrastructure and solutions,” said Kang Jin-mo, Chairman of ITCEN. “We plan to continue to expand cooperation in the AI business by utilizing our capabilities to provide customized solutions tailored to various customer needs.”
SK Telecom Vice President Ha Min-yong emphasized, “SK Telecom plans to expand its GPUaaS business based on high-performance GPUs,” and “This collaboration with ITCEN will be an opportunity to expand the influence of AI infrastructure in the public, financial, and cloud sectors.”
