ONE AI
Category: AI in Manufacturing
Korean on-device physical AI startup whose Axis.ONE platform runs industrial vision, safety, robotics and agentic AI on existing Intel CPUs, with no GPU and no cloud. ONE AI was founded in 2026. The company is led by Baek In-chan (백인찬). Based in Seoul, South Korea. Team size: 1-10. Latest round: Undisclosed.
- Founded
- 2026
- Headquarters
- Seoul, South Korea
- Team size
- 1-10
Value proposition
Adds AI through software only to the CPU-based industrial PCs, cameras and robots already on site. The company claims this cuts deployment cost by up to 90% compared with GPU setups. It runs 100% on-premise, so data never leaves closed or secure networks.
Products and solutions
Axis.ONE, a unified industrial edge AI platform with four modules: Vision.ONE (vision inspection), Safe.ONE (multimodal industrial safety and battery anomaly detection), Robo.ONE (vision-based robot control) and Assist.ONE (agentic AI for closed networks). Also Axis.Loop, an active-learning engine that the company says cuts per-site training from 100 days to 10.
Unique value
GPU-free, cloud-free physical AI on hardware customers already own, built by a founding team with deep Intel edge-AI experience
Target customer
Manufacturers (including SMEs), logistics operators, energy and oil & gas facilities, defense and public infrastructure operators, and the overseas plants of Korean battery and manufacturing firms
Industries served
Manufacturing / smart factory, Logistics, Energy & secondary batteries, Defense, Public infrastructure, Healthcare
Technology advantage
Deep optimization of AI inference on Intel CPUs; one architecture that unifies vision, safety, robotics and agentic AI; an active-learning loop that speeds adaptation to each site; Intel official AI technology partner (Intel Ingenius program)
How they differentiate
Competitors mostly rely on GPUs, accelerators or the cloud. ONE AI targets CPU-only, fully on-premise deployment on existing Intel-based equipment, and bundles vision, safety, robotics and agentic AI into one platform.
Main competitors
Landing AI, Neurala, Nota AI
Key partnerships
Intel (Ingenius global innovation partner / official AI tech partner), OPEN Group (Japan channel partnership covering 10,000+ manufacturing customers), Hansol Logis U (MOU to co-commercialize secondary-battery early safety detection), JRC / Nisshinbo Group (PCB inspection PoC, Q4 2026), Kyungshin Logistics (경신종합물류), container-loading robot PoC, participant in the MSS Intel global collaboration program, MOLIT NEXT Challenge and MSIT K-Physical AI Alliance, Nautilus Investment New York program
Notable customers
Undisclosed Japanese manufacturer (first export, June 2026), JRC (PoC), Hansol Logis U, Kyungshin Logistics (PoC)
Major milestones
Jan 2026: incorporated (registry date 2026-01-14). Venture company certification and TIPS selection. June 2026: first revenue from export to Japan. Exhibited with OPEN Group at Monozukuri World Japan. Oct 2026: joins the Nautilus Investment New York program (Oct 13-18) to pitch Axis.ONE to US investors.
Growth metrics
First revenue in June 2026 (vision tech exported to a Japanese manufacturer), about 6 months after founding. The company reports a combined KR-JP business pipeline of about $5M. From Oct 2026, OPEN Group generates about $70K in demo-set supply plus about $4K/month in consulting. Expected contracts: about $400K (Hansol, early 2027) and $200K+ (Kyungshin, Q1 2027). Registry shows about 6 employees (Aug 2026).
Market positioning
Early-stage, low-cost provider of sovereign / on-prem industrial edge AI, aimed at brownfield and security-sensitive sites
Geographic focus
South Korea and Japan today; expanding to the US and the Middle East (Dubai office planned) in 2027
About Baek In-chan (백인찬)
Ex-Intel APAC AI head (인텔 APAC AI 본부장); 20+ years optimizing AI on Intel silicon. The founding team, while at Intel, developed vision AI with LG Energy Solution, Hyundai Heavy Industries (autonomous ships), Samsung Medison, Samsung Electronics, Samsung S1 and Hanwha Vision, and led Intel autonomous-driving demos at CES 2023-2025.
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Official website: https://one-ai.dev