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Latest news, updates, and announcements from Rebellions.
Rebellions Joins KT-Led Consortium for South Korea's 'Modu-ui AI' National Platform
KT announced it is assembling a domestic full-stack AI consortium for the South Korean government's public-facing "Modu-ui AI" ("Everyone's AI") service, combining Korean AI infrastructure and model p...
Rebellions in Early Talks With NVIDIA on Potential AI Inference Chip Collaboration
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang met with Rebellions co-founder and CEO Sunghyun Park at NVIDIA's Santa Clara headquarters this week to discuss a potential collaboration, Bloomberg reported, citing people fami...
Rebellions Enters Early Talks With NVIDIA on a Potential Deal
NVIDIA is reportedly holding early discussions with South Korean NPU developer Rebellions on possible technology cooperation, an equity investment, or an acquisition. Bloomberg, citing people familiar...
Rebellions acquires SqueezeBits in a comprehensive stock swap deal.
South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions has acquired SqueezeBits, an AI inference optimization company, through a comprehensive stock swap. The deal makes SqueezeBits a wholly owned subsidiary while its...
Rebellions, the South Korean AI chip startup, has achieved a valuation of 3 trillion won (~$2.2 bill...
Rebellions, the South Korean AI chip startup, has achieved a valuation of 3 trillion won (~$2.2 billion) as the market shifts from GPUs to on-device neural processing units (NPUs). The company is posi...
Rebellions becomes first unlisted direct equity investment from Korea's National Growth Fund
Korea's National Growth Fund has selected AI semiconductor fabless company Rebellions as its first direct equity investment in an unlisted firm, signaling strong state-backed support for domestic AI c...
Rebellion acquires SqueezeBits to build end-to-end AI inference infrastructure
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellion (리벨리온) has acquired SqueezeBits (스퀴즈비츠), an AI inference optimization specialist. The deal, announced June 30, brings together Rebellion’s Neural Processing Unit...
Rebellion and Upstage Reach Unicorn Status on Domestic Capital as Korean Startup Ecosystem Decouples from Global Funding
AI chip startup Rebellion (리벨리온) and LLM firm Upstage (업스테이지) have each raised over 500 billion won (~$375M) in recent rounds, achieving unicorn status through domestic Korean capital alone—Rebellion...
Rebellions partners with KB Financial Group to build AI inference infrastructure using domestic AI chips
South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions (리벨리온) has signed a strategic business agreement with KB Financial Group to deploy domestic neural processing units (NPUs) for financial AI inference workloads....
Rebellion (리벨리온) and FuriosaAI (퓨리오사AI), South Korea's leading AI semiconductor fabless startups, ar...
Rebellion (리벨리온) and FuriosaAI (퓨리오사AI), South Korea's leading AI semiconductor fabless startups, are stockpiling a combined ~1.8 trillion won (~$1.35B) in cash and near-cash reserves, according to a...
SK Telecom, Arm and Rebellions will co‑develop a hybrid CPU‑NPU inference server, merging Arm's new...
SK Telecom, Arm and Rebellions will co‑develop a hybrid CPU‑NPU inference server, merging Arm's new 136‑core AGI CPU with Rebellions' RebelCard slated for Q3 release. This architecture promises higher...
South Korea approved 250B won ($166M) direct investment in AI chip startup Rebellions via its Nation...
South Korea approved 250B won ($166M) direct investment in AI chip startup Rebellions via its National Growth Fund - the first deal under the K-Nvidia initiative targeting 1T+ won total. This bet on a...
South Korea's National Growth Fund selected AI chip startup Rebellions as its first direct equity in...
South Korea's National Growth Fund selected AI chip startup Rebellions as its first direct equity investment target, committing 250 billion won ($178M) as part of the government's "K-Nvidia Developmen...
Rebellion has secured a KRW 350 billion Series C funding round, pushing its valuation to KRW 2 trill...
Rebellion has secured a KRW 350 billion Series C funding round, pushing its valuation to KRW 2 trillion as it eyes a 2025 IPO. Backed by strategic investors including Arm and Samsung, the company is t...
South Korea’s Rebellions has closed its Series C, raising an expanded $253 million and securing a $1...
South Korea’s Rebellions has closed its Series C, raising an expanded $253 million and securing a $1.4 billion valuation. This major funding, backed by U.S. VCs and Arm’s first Asia-Pacific investment...