[Blockmedia] Theta Labs, the leading provider of decentralized cloud infrastructure for AI, media, and entertainment, is pleased to announce that Korea University, ranked #7 in Asia, has joined as an EdgeCloud AI customer through its Universal Transfer Learning (UTL) Lab led by Professor Donghyun Kim. On the heels of KAIST, Yonsei University and Seoul Women’s University, Korea university marks a continued EdgeCloud customer adoption across the academic sector in Asia.
This multi-year agreement will allow researchers at Korea University to leverage Theta EdgeCloud’s scalable GPU resources to enhance research in AI, including transfer learning, domain adaptation, and multimodal learning.
Founded in 1905 as the nation’s first university funded, Korea University is one of South Korea’s most prestigious universities. With over 33,000 students enrolled across 18 colleges and divisions, the school offers a broad range of programs in Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Business. The UTL Lab focuses on advancing the transferability and adaptability of AI models across diverse fields, driving innovation in various industries.
Through this agreement, Theta will provide UTL Lab with the highest performing NVIDIA H100 GPUs across East Asia needed to train advanced AI models, including domain and task transfer, and efficient adaptation of foundation models. This will empower researchers at Korea University to push the boundaries of AI innovation by utilizing Theta’s decentralized, high-performance distributed GPU computing platform.
This partnership comes as the UTL Lab’s recent paper, titled “Weak-to-Strong Compositional Learning from Generative Models for Language-based Object Detection” has been accepted at ECCV 2024 and CVPR Workshop 2024. ECCV (European Conference on Computer Vision) is one of the top international conferences focused on advancements in computer vision and AI, while CVPR (Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) is among the most prestigious conferences in AI and machine learning, drawing global researchers to present cutting-edge work in the field.
Theta Labs recently welcomed its first corporate customer, Jamcoding, one of South Korea’s leading coding education programs. In addition, EdgeCloud has gained significant traction in academia with Seoul Women’s University (SWU), KAIST, and Yonsei University utilizing its infrastructure to advance their AI research in various cutting edge fields.
“Signing up Korea University’s UTL Lab is a significant milestone for us, as it brings one of the nation’s most prestigious universities into our growing network of academic customers. With KAIST, Yonsei University, Seoul Women’s University, and now Korea University as our fourth academia customer, we are proud to support these leading institutions. This continues Theta’s aggressive customer acquisition path towards becoming the most adopted, revenue generating blockchain platform for AI, media and entertainment,” said Mitch Liu, co-founder and CEO of Theta Labs.
“Integrating EdgeCloud into our research infrastructure marks an exciting step forward for our lab. We are able to get up and running 3x faster than other cloud providers and the scalable GPU resources provided by Theta will enable us to enhance our AI research capabilities, focusing on transfer learning and model adaptability across diverse applications. This collaboration empowers us to push the boundaries of innovation in AI education and development,” said Professor Donghyun Kim.
