Rebellions
A Seoul AI-inference-chip company founded in 2020 and merged with SK Telecom's Sapeon…
Seoul
is #9 in AI funding.
Seoul sits in the lower half of the AI race — $1.7B of all-time AI capital across 11 orgs.One company — Rebellions — is 50% of all AI funding in the Seoul.
LIVE #9 OF 12 HUBS 100% OF SOUTH KOREA 1 FRONTIER MODEL UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$1.7B
all-time AI capital raised
#9/ 12 AI ORGS
11
notable AI organisations
#6/ 12 NOTABLE MODELS
9
1 at the frontier
#3/ 12 OPERATIONAL MW
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no live AI DCs on record
Where Seoul sitsall hubs ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = SEOUL
Seoul 100/100 rest of south korea 0/100
Seoul =
100%
of South Korea's AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding in South Korea: $1.7B.
Seoul: $1.7B.
Seoul: $1.7B.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF SOUTH KOREA AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 11 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
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ORG LATEST FUNDING
Jan 2024
$850M
FuriosaAI
A Seoul-based AI chip startup founded in 2017 designing inference accelerators that…
Jan 2024
$268M
Upstage
A Seoul-based enterprise LLM company founded in October 2020 by ex-Naver Clova AI head…
Apr 2026
$260M
Lunit
A Seoul medical-imaging AI company founded in 2013 by KAIST graduates Anthony Paek,…
$200M
Vuno
A Seoul-based medical AI company founded in December 2014 by former Samsung Electronics…
$120M
KT Mi:dm
Korea Telecom's in-house LLM line, unveiled in 2023 at KT's Seoul R&D Center.
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LG AI Research
LG Group's AI research center, established in December 2020 at LG Science Park in Seoul…
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Motif Technologies
A Seoul AI startup led by CEO Lim Jeong-hwan, a former Samsung Research and…
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Naver
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Naver HyperCLOVA
Naver's foundation-model line, developed at the Korean internet giant's 1784 headquarters…
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NC AI
A Seongnam-based AI subsidiary spun out of Korean game publisher NCSOFT in February 2025…
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CLICK TILE → ORG PROFILE NAVY TILE = #1 IN SEOUL
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