42Maru Inc.

South Korea · Information Technology & Services

<​Company Introduction> We are building the next generation of search. Our QA (Question Answering) system uses deep learning to understand a question and deliver a single correct answer in less than a second. Our technology finds the relevant answers in real time using MRC (Machine Reading Comprehension). We are ranked #1 in Stanford's SQuAD MRC competition. Our patented QA system is the first and only commercial version in Korea. It's already in use in over 50% of the smart speakers in our home market and is also working on B2C and B2B applications with KT, LG, Daewoo, Hyundai, Softbank, and many others. We're in London to open our first international office and to launch our SaaS platform that will allow organizations to use our system to make their businesses more efficient. <​TARGET MARKET> KMS(Knowledge Management System), Chatbot Industry, Knowledge QA <​CORE TECNOLOGY> Information Retrieval, Machine Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Understanding, Paraphrasing, Semantic Triple, etc <​NOTABLE HISTORY> 2018, 2019Selected for Web Summit 2018, CES 2019, MWC 2019 Dec. 2019Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) Award Dec. 2019Accepted to the UK, Department for International Trade's Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP) 2019 Nov. 2018Ranked no.1 in the SQuAD 2.0 competition (Stanford University) Nov. 2018English KMS for Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Sep. 2018Concierge Chatbot QA system for Softbank's Pepper robot Aug. 2018Selected for TIPA (Korean Gov't R&D Grant) Jul. 2018Techstars London 2018 Jul. 2018QA Solution for KT – Smart Speaker (Giga Genie) May 20182018 Korea's Innovative Technology Award for AI Apr. 2018Creative Korea - K-Champ Global Business Expansion Apr. 2018Amazon Web Service - AI Challenge Award Mar. 2018QA System for LG U+ Kids Watch Jan. 2018Asia Economic TV - Artificial Intelligence Startup Award Oct. 2017Selected for TIPS (Korean Gov't R&D Grant) Oct. 2015 Established