Upstage to Host LG Uplus AI Ground 2022

Upstage will host the 'LG Uplus AI Ground' AI competition together with LG Uplus for developing personalized recommendation models. Applications will be accepted from October 10 to 31, and university/graduate students and the general public nationwide can participate individually or in teams of up to 3.

The competition will run for one month, from November 7 to December 2. Participants will use LG Uplus's Idle na-ra recommendation dataset and Upstage's competition platform AI Stages to develop the optimal recommendation AI model. The core task is to build a personalized content recommendation algorithm tailored to user preferences.

Prize money and hiring benefits will be provided based on performance.

• 1st place: 5,000,000 won (1 team)
• 2nd place: 2,000,000 won (1 team)
• 3rd place: 1,000,000 won (3 teams)
• Top 10 teams: Benefit of passing document screening and coding tests (one-time only) when applying for LG Uplus new employee hiring

Upstage explained that its recommendation AI technology showed results averaging 1.5x or better compared to a global Company A, and has been applied to the fashion app Brandi. It also stated that through its Seargest (search+suggest) technology and the upcoming Upstage AI Pack, it plans to offer various AI features such as OCR, recommendation, and semantic search in no-code/low-code form.