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Trillion Labs

Category: AI Infrastructure

A specialized AI research lab developing 'Sovereign AI' foundation models (LLMs) that are hyper-localized for the Korean language and cultural context. Trillion Labs was founded in 2024. The company is led by Shin Jae-min (Jay Shin). Based in Seoul, South Korea. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $4.2M. Latest round: Pre-Seed ($4.2M, Sep 2024). Key investors include ["Strong Ventures","Kakao Ventures","Goodwater Capital","Bass Investment","The Ventures","BAM Ventures"].

Founded
2024
Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea
Team size
11-50
Total funding
$4.2M

Value proposition

Overcomes 'data scarcity' for non-English languages to deliver GPT-4 level Korean reasoning capabilities at a significantly lower training cost using 'rBridge' technology.

Products and solutions

["Tri-Series Foundation Models (e.g., Trillion-7B-preview, Tri-70B)","rBridge (Reasoning Bridge) Methodology","Sovereign AI Enterprise Solutions"]

Unique value

Utilizes a proprietary 'Data-Centric' approach using 'rBridge' to synthesize high-quality reasoning data for low-resource languages.

Target customer

Enterprises requiring high-accuracy Korean language processing, Government/Public Sector, and B2B SaaS companies.

Industries served

["Generative AI Infrastructure","Enterprise Software (B2B)","Government & Public Sector","Legal & Finance"]

Technology advantage

The 'rBridge' technology allows for efficient pre-training by transferring reasoning capabilities from English SOTA models, reducing experiment costs significantly.

How they differentiate

Focuses on 'Data-Centric' AI using proprietary 'rBridge' technology to synthesize high-quality reasoning data for non-English languages, enabling smaller models to outperform larger global models.

Main competitors

["Upstage","Naver Cloud (HyperCLOVA X)","42Maru"]

Key partnerships

["AWS (Generative AI Accelerator)","NVIDIA (Inception Program)","Naver Cloud","Strong Ventures","Kakao Ventures"]

Notable customers

["Undisclosed Enterprise POCs (B2B)","Government AI Research Initiatives"]

Major milestones

["Founded July 2024","Secured 5.7B KRW (~$4.2M) Pre-Seed funding in Sept 2024","Selected for AWS Generative AI Accelerator in Oct 2024","Released 'Trillion-7B-preview' model"]

Growth metrics

Selected for AWS Generative AI Accelerator 2024 (Top 80 globally); Released 'Trillion-7B-preview' on Hugging Face.

Market positioning

Sovereign AI infrastructure challenger for the Asian market (starting with Korea).

Geographic focus

South Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia

Patents and IP

Proprietary 'rBridge' algorithm and data synthesis pipelines.

About Shin Jae-min (Jay Shin)

Former Research Scientist at NAVER Cloud (HyperCLOVA X Team), focusing on pre-training and alignment of large language models. Previously an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa AI. Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST.

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