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New Comparative Analytics Feature Proves AI SDRs Outperform Human Teams by 60-75% in Key Metrics. Revolutionary Dashboard Provides Real-Time Performance Comparison and ROI Analysis

Delray Beach, FL, Aug. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MarketsandMarkets™ SalesPlay unveiled its comprehensive AI SDR vs Traditional SDR Analytics Dashboard, a powerful new feature that enables sales leaders to compare performance metrics between AI-powered and human sales development representatives in real-time.

This innovative capability provides unprecedented visibility to the effectiveness of different sales development approaches, helping organizations make data-driven decisions about resource allocation and team optimization.

Key Features of the AI vs Traditional SDR Dashboard:

• Real-Time Performance Comparison: Live metrics showing response times, conversion rates, and cost-per-lead across AI and human teams
• ROI Calculation Engine: Automated analysis of total cost ownership including hiring, training, and operational expenses
• Volume Capacity Analytics: Visual representation of prospect handling capacity and scalability limitations
• Quality Metrics Tracking: Detailed comparison of lead scoring accuracy, meeting show rates, and deal closure effectiveness
• Hybrid Model Optimization: AI-powered recommendations for optimal AI-human team composition

“Sales leaders need concrete data to make strategic decisions about their team composition,” said Product Lead at MarketsandMarkets™. “Our new AI versus traditional SDR analytics remove guesswork by providing clear, measurable comparisons that demonstrate exactly where each approach excels.”

Initial data from the platform reveals that AI SDRs consistently outperform traditional teams in speed metrics, achieving sub-minute response times compared to industry averages of 42 hours. However, the dashboard also highlights human advantages in relationship building and complex deal management.

The feature enables sales organizations to optimize their approach by identifying the most effective hybrid models combining AI efficiency with human expertise for maximum revenue impact.

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Highlights

• Landmark multi-year agreement strengthens UFC GYM and MMA.INC alliance, supporting the global rollout of 45 new gyms in 2025 and accelerating the expansion of UFC GYM’s high-growth BJJ program—powered by MMA.INC’s category-leading software.
• BJJLink.com is the definitive all-in-one operating system for martial arts-first businesses—optimizing member management, driving revenue growth, and unlocking scalable monetization for franchisees.
• Builds on MMA.INC and UFC GYM’s broader strategic partnership to integrate the Warrior Training Program across a network of 150+ locations worldwide.
• The first franchise has been sold and is opening its doors in the Florida market.

New York, NY, Aug. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mixed Martial Arts Group Limited (NYSE American: MMA) (“MMA” or the “Company”), an NYSE American listed innovator at the intersection of combat sports and digital transformation, has announced an expansion of its strategic technology partnership with UFC Gym Group who are selecting BJJLink.com as the official gym management software platform for all new UFC GYM BJJ franchise studios.

This extension of the existing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) agreement follows UFC GYM’s landmark global expansion announcement in February and solidifies a deeper alignment between UFC GYM’s fast-growing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) program and MMA.INC’s category-leading gym software. This announcement capitalizes on the growth in BJJ, reinforced by UFC’s recent launch of their new premier BJJ live event series, UFC BJJ 1.

BJJLink.com, powered by MMA.INC’s Martial Arts Technology, will serve as the digital backbone of UFC GYM’S new BJJ franchise studios. Designed specifically for martial arts-first businesses, the platform equips franchisees with a modern, all-in-one operating system that streamlines member management, drives revenue, and unlocks new monetization opportunities. Key features include:

• Mobile check-in and self-service kiosk systems to reduce front-desk friction and enhance member experience
• Curriculum and belt progression management with digital tracking tools aligned to structured programs
• Smart class and staff scheduling with real-time attendance and performance visibility
• Payment infrastructure, including recurring billing, retail sales and a customizable in-app transaction layer that supports Stripe and a growing list of other global processors
• Referral tracking and affiliate logic to power grassroots growth and incentive campaigns
• Built-in CRM and e-commerce automation, enabling franchisees to engage leads, sell merchandise, and convert visitors, all from one centralized platform

Under the terms of the expanded agreement, UFC GYM franchisees will gain access to BJJLink Admin+, a powerful all-in-one platform designed to simplify operations and drive growth. UFC GYM BJJ Studio Franchisees will benefit from streamlined class scheduling, automated billing, digital curriculum tools, and built-in referral tracking, removing administrative overhead and enabling staff to focus on member experience. Standardized pricing across locations and centralized reporting through a master admin dashboard provide both flexibility and oversight, helping franchisees scale confidently while staying aligned with brand standards.

“The BJJLink platform offers an intuitive and powerful back-end that empowers our coaches and BJJ studio franchisees to focus on what matters most, training and community,” said Adam Sedlack, CEO of UFC GYM. “This agreement gives us the technical scalability and operational consistency needed to support our ambitious rollout of new BJJ studios globally.”

The new UFC GYM BJJ studios, purpose-built spaces dedicated to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, are part of UFC GYM’s mission to redefine fitness and martial arts for modern athletes. The brand plans to open more than 45 new gyms in 2025, with many of the BJJ-first models ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 square feet and featuring advanced mat spaces, recovery zones, and family-friendly programming.

“This extension validates our shared belief that the future of martial arts training is both physical and digital,” said Nick Langton, CEO of MMA.INC. “We’re proud to be the technology engine behind UFC GYM’s BJJ studio model and to deepen our long-standing relationship with the preeminent name in martial arts training.”

BJJLink is already used by hundreds of martial arts academies around the world and has seen increased demand from franchise operators seeking more streamlined onboarding, revenue analytics, and student engagement tools.

MMA.INC and UFC GYM intend to co-launch the new BJJLink-powered UFC BJJ studio software at select international locations during H2 of 2025.

MMA.INC’s recently announced an international push, expanding BJJLink into Latin America and launching a marquee partnership with Gracie Allegiant HQ and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu legend Clark Gracie.

About Mixed Martial Arts Group Limited

MMA.INC (Mixed Martial Arts Group Limited) is revolutionizing the combat sports industry by driving participation and engagement across fans, athletes, coaches, and gym owners. The company operates four core business units:

	●	TrainAlta: A platform that transforms MMA fans into active participants through structured training programs.
	●	Hype: A marketing platform helping gym owners, coaches, and athletes grow revenue from their audiences.
	●	MixedMartialArts.com: The go-to resource for MMA news, fighter data, fight schedules, and the legendary Underground forum.
	●	BJJLink: A leading gym management platform designed for BJJ academies, offering tools for payment processing, marketing, student engagement, and content monetization.

With over 5 million social media followers, 530,000 user profiles, 50,000 active students, 18,000 published gyms and 800 verified gyms across 16 countries, MMA.inc continues to transform the martial arts landscape and deliver unparalleled value to its stakeholders.

For more information, visit www.mma.inc or follow us on social media:

	●	Facebook: TrainAlta
	●	Instagram: @TrainAlta
	●	X: @AltaGlobalGroup
	●	LinkedIn: MMA.inc

ABOUT UFC GYM^®

UFC GYM^® is the first major brand extension of UFC^®, the world’s premier MMA organization, created in alliance with New Evolution Ventures^™ (NeV), developers of many of the world’s most successful fitness brands. As the first to unite the benefits of MMA with fitness, the brand is not what you expect, and more than you can imagine. UFC GYM’s TRAIN DIFFERENT^® approach provides members with the ultimate fitness experience and programming that secures results for all ages and training levels. With over 150 locations opened and 700 additional locations currently in development globally, UFC GYM has revolutionized the fitness industry and positively impacted countless lives worldwide. UFC GYM offers the opportunity to own and operate a franchise domestically and internationally. For more information, please visit www.ufcgym.com.

Follow UFC GYM through the below platforms:

• FACEBOOK – Facebook.com/UFCGYM
• YOUTUBE – Youtube.com/UFCGYM
• INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK & X – @UFCGYM

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-Featuring participation from leading Canadian cultural institutions such as the National Film Board and MUTEK, as well as local artists
-Presenting a variety of exchange programs, including screenings of works by leading Korean convergence artists such as Tae-kyung Yoo and Heung-soon Im

Spectrum of Humanity: Convergence Art Exhibition to Be Held in Montreal and Ottawa

MONTRÉAL and TORONTO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia and CANMORE, Alberta, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In an era of rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, where is art headed? To explore creative responses to this question, artists from Korea and Canada will come together in a joint initiative The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea (Minister: Choi Hwi-young), the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE, President: Park Chang-sik), and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Director: Kim Sung-hee) will co-host the Korea–Canada Convergence Art Special Exhibition Spectrum of Humanity, to be held in Montréal and Ottawa, Canada, from Monday, August 18 to Saturday, August 23.

The special exhibition, held under the theme “Art in the Age of AI,” will include an international conference and VR screening, a video art screening and talk show, and an artist exchange workshop. Key Canadian cultural institutions — including the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Cinéma du Musée, and MUTEK — will participate as collaborative partners.

The exhibition will officially open with the international conference in Montréal on Monday, August 18. Soojung YI, curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, and Louis-Richard Tremblay, Director of the Innovation Lab at the NFB, will serve as co-moderators. The conference will explore the evolving landscape of filmmaking and artistic creation in the age of AI.

The session will feature four leading media artists from Korea and Canada — including Tae-kyung Yoo from Korea and Nelly-Ève Rajotte from Canada — who will present and discuss case studies of artistic collaboration between humans and technology.

From Tuesday, August 19 to Wednesday, August 20, an artist exchange workshop will be held in Ottawa in collaboration with major national, public, and private art institutions. The workshop will bring together four Korean and five Canadian visual artists, along with two curators from each country, to engage in dialogue and exchange.

Designed as a platform to share current creative practices and artistic concerns in both countries, the workshop will also explore concrete possibilities for future collaboration.

From Friday, August 22 to Saturday, August 23, a screening of seven media art works by five leading Korean artists will take place at Cinéma du Musée in Montréal. This special screening aims to present the current landscape of contemporary media art that navigates new narratives at the intersection of art and technology.

Through this special exhibition, Korea and Canada aim to share emerging practices at the convergence of technology and art, laying the groundwork for sustained exchange and joint creation in the field of convergence art.

KOREA X CANADA Cultural Program: Musical <R;Link> Based on the Battle of Kapyong to Make Its First Overseas Performance in North Vancouver, Canada

As part of the 2024–2025 Korea–Canada Year of Cultural Exchanges, another major program will be presented: the first international performance of the original musical <R;Link>, based on the Battle of Kapyong. This production is hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, and co-organized by the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange and Hanyang University (President: Lee Ki-jeong).

The musical was developed and produced through collaborative participation by students from the Departments of Theatre at Capilano University, the University of Saskatchewan, and the First Nations University of Canada.

Following its world premiere at CKL Stage in Seoul on July 26–27, the musical will be performed internationally at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts at Capilano University in North Vancouver, on August 15 (Friday) and August 16(Saturday).

Telling the story of two young people from different cultures and languages who build a friendship beyond borders and stand together for peace, the performance is especially meaningful as Canadian veterans and their families are invited to attend. It is expected to serve as a symbolic stage reaffirming the values of friendship and peace between Korea and Canada through culture and the arts.

KOFICE Canada Responder: Ryan.lee@jbcom.ca

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) successfully performed 10 kidney exchange transplants over two consecutive days, setting a global record for the highest number of such procedures conducted within a two-day span at a single center, coinciding with World Organ Donation Day on August 13. This milestone reinforces KFSHRC’s position as a global leader in organ transplantation.

This accomplishment reflects the hospital’s high clinical readiness, the seamless coordination of its multidisciplinary medical teams, and its advanced systems for managing donor-recipient matching, alongside its extensive experience in executing complex transplant procedures. All of these factors enable KFSHRC to carry out this type of exchange transplantation with precision and within an exceptionally short timeframe.

Paired kidney transplantation is an innovative approach that matches donor–patient pairs for mutual exchange. In this system, each donor gives a kidney to a patient with whom they have no direct relation, while their own relative receives a kidney from another donor. The process significantly improves compatibility rates and offers new hope to patients who face challenges in finding a suitable match within their families.

Last year, KFSHRC celebrated a major milestone by completing more than 500 paired kidney transplants since the program was launched in 2011. Since launching its organ transplantation program in 1981, the hospital has successfully performed over 5,000 kidney transplants, placing it among an elite group of global transplant centers.

In 2024, the hospital conducted 80 pediatric kidney transplants, the highest annual volume reported worldwide. This makes KFSHRC’s pediatric kidney transplant program the largest of its kind compared to leading centers in the United States and Europe.

This remarkable achievement underscores KFSHRC’s commitment to its vision of being the provider of choice for specialized healthcare. By leveraging its skilled workforce, advanced technologies, and the integration of research and clinical programs, the hospital aims to deliver world-class treatment experiences both locally and globally, while enhancing the Kingdom’s position as a leader in organ transplantation.

KFSHRC has been ranked first in the Middle East and North Africa and 15th globally in the list of the world’s top 250 Academic Medical Centers for the second consecutive year and has been recognized as the most valuable healthcare brand in the Kingdom and the Middle East, according to the 2024 Brand Finance rankings. Additionally, in the same year, it was ranked among the world’s best 250 hospitals and included in the World’s Best Smart Hospitals list for 2025 by Newsweek magazine.

For more information, visit www.kfshrc.edu.sa or contact our media team at mediacoverage@kfshrc.edu.sa

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SHANGHAI, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On August 9, 2025, a Chinese commercial aerospace company Geespace successfully completed the fourth orbital deployment of GEESATCOM, known as Geely Constellation, launching 11 satellites from waters off Rizhao, Shandong Province, aboard a single rocket. All entered their planned orbits and are operating normally.

GEESATCOM, independently developed and operated by Geespace, enables satellite IoT testing and inter-satellite communications for applications in intelligent connected vehicles, marine fisheries, construction machinery, low-altitude mobility, emergency communications, transportation and logistics, public infrastructure, energy, water conservancy, agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry. It also supports Earth observation for ecological and environmental monitoring.

With this launch, the constellation has grown from 30 to 41 satellites in 600 km orbit. Within two months, it is expected to reach 64 satellites, enabling seamless real-time global data coverage—excluding the polars. Once fully deployed, the constellation will offer commercial IoT satellite services worldwide.

Leveraging a global footprint and open partnership model, Geespace has established collaborations with telecom operators in over 20 countries, particularly in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, achieving 99.15% communication success and 99.97% network availability in POC testing.

In Malaysia, joint venture ADISB, with local telecom operator ALTEL is driving localized GEESATCOM services for maritime, agriculture, transportation, and energy sectors. This project has drawn the attention of Malaysia’s Prime Minister, Minister of Communications, and other senior government officials.

As constellation deployment accelerates, Geespace will work with global ecosystem partners to drive the large-scale commercial adoption of low-Earth orbit satellite IoT communication technologies worldwide.

Company: Geespace
Contact Person: Elliott Zhang
Email: jingxi.zhang1@geely.com
Website: https://www.geespace.com/
Telephone: +86 21 54200666
City: Shanghai, China

Hong Kong, China, Aug. 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In today’s fast-paced work environment, the efficient and accurate transmission of information has become a core requirement for improving communication quality and work efficiency. To meet this demand, a new AI text visualization tool called PicDoc has been developed. PicDoc, named after the combination of “Picture” and “Document”, defines the mission of visualizing ideas – as easy as taking a photo to capture a moment, and as fast as generating a picture – and is dedicated to solving a widespread pain point in the workplace –How to efficiently transform complex text content into clear, professional and flexible editable visualization charts to significantly improve communication efficiency.

PicDoc: https://youtu.be/1WTSscxOQ44

Say goodbye to cumbersome manual charting and focus on core information expression.

Whether it’s a project manager drawing a flowchart, a market analyst presenting a data report, or an educator explaining an abstract concept, the process of turning textual logic into visual elements is often time-consuming, laborious, and unrelated to the core idea, and PicDoc is designed to solve this bottleneck in efficiency.

PicDoc realizes professional charting through minimal operations:

1. Intelligent understanding of the creation: the complete workflow from content to visualization.

PicDoc deeply integrates AI capabilities, fully supporting text input, file import (PDF/Word/images, etc.) and AI writing assistant three major creation methods. After inputting the theme keywords (such as “e-commerce promotional program”), the system intelligently generates a complete outline and the first draft of the text, which significantly improves the efficiency of content creation; for the uploaded industry reports and other documents, it can quickly distill the core conclusions and data relationships to effectively avoid the risk of information overload; based on semantic parsing, it generates flowcharts/funnel diagrams and other professional views in seconds, which can be seamlessly adapted to the meeting. Based on semantic parsing, professional views such as flowcharts/funnel diagrams are generated in seconds, seamlessly adapting to meeting decision-making, report presentation and other scenarios, and realizing the full-process intelligence of “Content Creation→Information Purification→Visual Expression”.

2. Flexible editing: modify designs like puzzle pieces. 

All text and graphics can be modified individually by dragging and dropping, and there is a built-in business / technology / creative multi-style material library, which allows you to change the colors and fonts by clicking on them. No need to design background to produce both professional and aesthetic visualization works.

3. Seamless Office Integration

Export visuals instantly in PNG, PPT, or PDF formats. Embed directly into Word or PowerPoint documents for meeting materials preparation. Present key content in real-time during presentations. Complete the entire workflow from creation to application seamlessly without switching tools.

4. Instant Sharing

Create shareable links that recipients can access instantly—no downloads or registrations required. This streamlines information delivery for business reports, training sessions, and other scenarios, enabling real-time visualization access and efficient content flow.

 

For example, PicDoc can instantly generate a clearly structured flowchart by inputting a project flow text with clear steps (e.g. “Requirements Review -> UI Design -> Development -> Testing -> Go-Live”);

When the operation team inputs multi-dimensional business efficiency indicators (e.g. “95% of professional visualization users think …… 85% of team feedback on …… and 92% of creators say ……”) PicDoc intelligently extracts core data relationships and automatically generates multi-layer comparison charts with data annotations for quarterly corporate reports.

Technology Core: Intelligent Collaboration System Drives Accurate Visualization

PicDoc realizes technological breakthroughs through an innovative multi-module AI collaboration system – when users input content, the system works together like a professional design team: first, it accurately analyzes the logical relationships of the text (e.g., process steps, data hierarchies), and then it intelligently matches the most suitable chart types and layouts, and ultimately generates editable vectorial elements. This architecture not only guarantees second-level response speed, but also ensures that each text and graphic can be modified independently like PPT materials, especially optimized for semantic understanding and local business scenarios.

 

Empowering business communication and building visual ecosystem

PicDoc-AI is currently in the open beta stage, and all functions are open to users for free. The core value of PicDoc is that by revolutionizing the information visualization process, it brings significant efficiency improvement and communication quality optimization to high-frequency scenarios, such as internal communication (project reports, training materials), external presentations (sales proposals, customer reports) and content creation (blogs, social media).

PicDoc’s future planning is clear: in the short term, it will continue to optimize its core AI capabilities to improve the accuracy of understanding complex text and the quality of charts and graphs; the long-term goal is to build it into an open “visualization engine” (API), empowering various platforms such as OA systems, collaborative documents, BI tools, and content communities, so that the ability to “turn text into professional editable charts with a single click” can be seamlessly integrated into a wider range of workflows, and become an intelligent infrastructure for enterprise information communication.

CONTACT: Xubin Gou
service(at)picdoc.cn

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DEEPX (CEO Lokwon Kim), an AI semiconductor company specializing in low-power on-device AI, announced on the 18th that it has signed a ‘PaddlePaddle Technology Ecosystem Partnership’ agreement with global AI leader Baidu in Shenzhen, China, and will begin strategic cooperation to spread AI solutions applicable to global industrial sites.

As an official ecosystem partner based on Baidu’s open-source deep learning framework PaddlePaddle, DEEPX will jointly participate in various industrial AI projects, co-develop products based on technology compatibility, and promote global customer promotion activities.

Baidu’s PaddlePaddle is China’s first open-source deep learning framework, a core technology platform for creating and running AI models. The name is short for “PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning” and is designed to quickly process large amounts of data and operate efficiently on a variety of devices.

It is used in a wide range of industries, including smart cities, autonomous driving, image recognition, speech processing, and more, and is regarded as the most widely used AI development tool in China, adopted by thousands of companies and institutions, as well as by Baidu’s own internal products. In particular, PaddlePaddle is positioned as a “full-stack AI platform” that supports the entire process from AI model development to deployment by providing ready-to-use tools such as pre-trained models, lightweighting tools, and visualization tools.

Prior to the agreement, DEEPX’s mass-produced chip, the DX-M1, was demonstrated in real-time on Baidu’s fifth-generation PP-OCR and VLM-based models, achieving extremely high FPS (frames per second) and power efficiency (FPS/W), especially on industrial PCs based in edge environments with limited battery resources. Baidu has expressed a willingness for further active collaboration in the future.

The cooperation will extend not only to OCR, but also to drones and robots. Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Team will compile its current AI models for drones and VLM+obstacle avoidance models for robots into the DX-M1 and commercialize them for deployment in real-world robotics and drone projects.

Meanwhile, DEEPX is in the process of converting and compiling 10 representative OpenVINO-based AI models widely used in the industry to be compatible with the DX-M1, and these models will be shared with global partners in Baidu’s PaddlePaddle ecosystem. This is expected to make it easier for various customers to adopt and scale AI products powered by DEEPX NPUs.

DEEPX is also developing V-NPU, a dedicated NPU card for vision AI that can replace GPUs, and has completed initial demos with mass production expected to begin in September. Cooperation between DEEPX and Baidu on next-generation product development is also being discussed. DEEPX will utilize Samsung Foundry’s next-generation AI semiconductor “DX-M2” based on 2nm process to validate a prototype to run Baidu’s large AI model “ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B” (MoE-based).

In addition, Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Team has proposed to jointly exhibit DEEPX at the 2025 Shenzhen (International) Artificial General Intelligence Conference in Shenzhen at the end of August, and will also conduct on-site demonstrations and joint marketing to global customers.

Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Team said: “As a partner with excellent low-power AI semiconductor technology, DEEPX will add powerful edge computing capabilities to Baidu AI technical ecosystem, especially the DX-M1, which greatly enhances the practical applicability of PaddlePaddle-based AI models in various industries such as OCR, robotics, and drones. Through this collaboration, Baidu PaddlePaddle and ERNIE will accelerate the expansion of the ecosystem to make it easier for more companies to implement AI in real-world industries.”

“Our partnership with Baidu, marks an important turning point in the rapid spread of DEEPX’s AI semiconductor technology to global industrial sites,” said Lokwon Kim, CEO of DEEPX. “We will strengthen our competitiveness in the global AI market through practical productization based on the PaddlePaddle and ERNIE Ecosystem and various industrial collaborations.”

About DEEPX

Founded in anticipation of an era when artificial intelligence will be as pervasive as electricity and Wi-Fi, DEEPX develops core technology for high-performance AI semiconductors and computing solutions that bring intelligence to electronic devices. DEEPX currently holds over 350 patents pending in the U.S., China, and Korea—one of the largest patent portfolios in the world for on-device AI chip development.

DEEPX’s AI semiconductors are optimized for various applications, improving energy efficiency while enabling advanced AI functionality. The company is collaborating with customers such as Hyundai Kia Motors Robotics Lab, POSCO DX, LGU+, and Inventec on mass-production developments. In addition, DEEPX works with more than 120 global organizations in areas like smart cameras, surveillance systems (AI NVR), smart factories, robotic platforms, and AI servers, and conducts strategic global promotions in the United States, China, Taiwan, and Europe.

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CONTACT: Contact: lah@deepx.ai