Novemver 14, 2024

Nota AI and Alliance Traffic Systems (ATS) have signed an MoU to deploy Nota AI's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) solutions in the Middle East. ATS, a leader in traffic management in the GCC, will collaborate on a PoC project with Dubai's RTA, showcasing Nota AI's VLM-based on-device AI for real-time traffic analysis.

This partnership leverages ATS's regional expertise and networks, marking a key step in Nota AI's expansion into the Middle Eastern market. The project aims to tackle urban mobility challenges and improve traffic management efficiency.

September 5, 2024

Nota AI has introduced a new product to streamline traffic data extraction using advanced AI technology.

The Nota ITS Engine leverages Vision AI models directly on edge devices, providing real-time data on vehicle counts, traffic patterns, queue lengths, and pedestrian movements without relying on the cloud. This innovative solution enhances traffic management and supports cooperative automated driving through V2X technology, enabling direct communication with vehicles and existing ITS infrastructure.

“The intuitive interface of the ITS AI Engine simplifies installation and monitoring, reducing costs by using existing CCTV setups,” explained Bryan Woo, ITS Product Lead at Nota AI.

June 18, 2024

Nota AI, a leading South Korean startup specializing in AI optimization and lightweighting technology, has successfully raised $19.9 million (25.8 billion KRW) in its Series C funding round. This brings the total investment raised since its founding to approximately $42.6 million (53.2 billion KRW). The round was led by STIC Ventures and LB Investment, with new investments from STIC Ventures, Korea Development Bank, and Mirae Asset Securities. Existing investors Stonebridge Ventures, LB Investment, InterVest, and DS Investment Partners also contributed additional funds, alongside a key AI semiconductor CVC participating as a strategic investor.

June 7, 2024

AI model optimization technology company Nota AI® (Nota Inc.) has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with global industrial AIoT leader Advantech to collaborate in the burgeoning field of edge AI. This agreement marks a significant step forward for both companies as they aim to develop generative AI solutions at the edge and expand the application of edge AI across various industrial sectors, including smart cities and transportation.

Integrating Nota AI to Seeed’s edge AI devices

We start the collaboration by integrating NetsPresso with Seeed’s reThings platform, powered by NVIDIA Jetson, offers developers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline AI development and deployment. This collaboration provides embedded developers an efficient workflow for creating AI models, including seamless model training, compression, framework transition, and benchmarking.

The Seeed Studio reThings Series, powered by NVIDIA Jetson, offers edge devices in various form factors. These devices are designed for power efficiency, high AI performance, and hybrid connectivity, and feature an excellent cooling design for scalable production deployment. Fully compatible with NVIDIA’s software stack, these advanced embedded AI systems offer fast, next-generation AI product development across industries – from smart cities, security, and industrial automation to smart factories – and are ideal for advanced robotics applications across these sectors.

February 15, 2024

SK Telecom (SKT), MediaTek and start-up Nota AI developed AI-based device technology to reduce smartphone power use, addressing what the operator stated is a key influence on customer experience.

The technology predicts when data transmission is set to occur to maintain an optimal connection status between a smartphone and the base station.

In a statement, SKT noted battery life is “an important factor” in customer experience.

December 22, 2023

Vision foundational or fundamental models are used in computer vision tasks. These models serve as the building blocks or initial frameworks for more complex and specific models. Researchers and developers often utilize these as starting points and adapt or enhance them to address specific challenges or optimize for particular applications.

Vision models are extended to video data for action recognition, video captioning, and anomaly detection in surveillance footage. Their adaptability and efficacy in handling various computer vision tasks make them integral to modern AI applications.

October 3, 2023

Hardware-aware AI optimization

The hardware-aware AI optimization market provides software solutions that optimize AI algorithms and models to run efficiently on available hardware, such as GPUs and CPUs. These solutions also allow enterprises to compress neural networks to run on edge devices or on-prem servers. With optimization tools, businesses can speed up AI deployments, reduce prediction latency, and improve model performance.

May 27, 2023

Nota AI, based in Daejeon, South Korea, with offices opening soon in California, was at the 2023 Embedded Vision Summit to showcase their hardware-aware AI model optimization platform, which makes it possible for developers to build and deploy lightweight AI models on Rz/V2M/ and RZ/V2L microprocessors, delivering, they claim, 10x faster AI inference at lower power consumption than traditional approaches.

May 23, 2023

More than 60 people have attended Special Interest Session at the ITS European Congress in Lisbon discussing the issue of Vulnerable Road Users and whether technology can keep them safe from motor vehicles.

May 10, 2023

The South Korean traffic solutions start-up Nota AI, which specialises in using Artificial Intelligence to better manage road intersections, has installed a smart crosswalk on a main road in the country to improve real-time safety for pedestrians in a busy city.

April 17, 2023

The relationship between Nota.ai’s software stack and MemryX’s hardware is meant to open the door to rapid deployment of advanced AI solutions. Among the first is Nota AI’s Driver Management System (Nota DMS), a lightweight off-the-shelf AI-based driver monitoring system that can substantially improve road safety.

March 27, 2023

Nota AI™ (Nota Incorporated), a South Korean IT startup, has announced their successful completion of a trial of their Artificial Intelligence-based parking management system in Milton Keynes. The Proof of Concept project included using their AI Camera technology to analyse parking occupancy status and trends, and identify illegally-parked vehicles with the help of standard CCTV images.

March 23, 2023

Nota AI™ (Nota Incorporated), the South Korean IT start-up, has announced the successful implementation of their newest addition to the Nota ITS solution – smart parking – after completing a trial for their Artificial Intelligence-based parking management system in Milton Keynes.

February 23, 2023

The South Korean traffic solutions start-up Nota AI, which specialises in using Artificial Intelligence to better manage road intersections, has been recognised for the second year in a row for its cutting edge road safety solution.

December 13, 2022

Professor at Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Hwasoo Yeo, is praising Nota AI (Nota Incorporated)’s new vision analysis technique called AI Camera. This artificial intelligence solution collects traffic data from a standard CCTV camera at the intersection, processes it in real-time to calculate traffic flow, time-mean speed and occupancy similar to existing, passive sensors such as loop detectors and radar.

December 9, 2022

The South Korean traffic solutions start-up Nota AI is among four companies from the country who are trialling their products in Milton Keynes. Milton Keynes City Council and the Connected Places Catapult have launched a UK Testbed Initiative with the Korean International Trade Association that will oversee the work. The city says it’s part of its ambitions to find innovative and sustainable solutions to make it even easier to get around building on its “world leading smart city reputation”.

August 8, 2022

The South Korean traffic solutions start-up Nota AI, which specialises in using Artificial Intelligence to better manage road intersections, is installing its Safe Crossing technology at four main intersections in a Korean city. It is partnering with the city of Daejeon to implement the camera-based technology to prevent pedestrian accidents due to turning cars, jaywalking or drivers whose sight lines may be impaired.

July 7, 2022

Tae-Ho Kim, Co-founder and CTO of Nota AI, presents the “Empower Your Edge Device Using NetsPresso – No AI Engineer Required!” tutorial at the May 2022 Embedded Vision Summit. Despite the outstanding achievements of deep learning models, commercializing deep learning applications remains challenging.

June 28, 2022

The Korean artificial intelligence optimisation platform Nota is launching an AI-based intersection management control system which uses images from existing traffic cameras. The AI Camera solution is a vision analysis technique to collect traffic data from CCTV at a junction, collecting data such as traffic flow, speed and occupancy, similar to the existing, passive sensors such as loop detectors and radar.

June 9, 2022

NVIDIA Inception nurtures cutting-edge startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data science. The free program has 9,000+ members who are given access to the best technical tools, latest resources, and opportunities to connect with investors.

May 11, 2022

The Korean ITS innovator Nota AI has explained how the use of Artificial Intelligence will deliver better traffic management, reduced congestion and cleaner air. It’s written a blog post explaining how C-ITS solution is an innovative solution which has been developed over the years to help enhance traffic infrastructure including alleviation of congestion and improvement for citizens.

April 24, 2022

In the last decade, AI research has brought astonishing results in many fields, and, undoubtedly, AI is nowadays a central technology in many aspects of our life. As new ideas are proposed every day, this continuous research usually comes with infinite applications:

April 20, 2022

Marktechpost has recently learned about Nota AI, a South Korea-based AI optimization technology startup, that is launching its latest AI model optimization tool, 'Model Search' on April 20, 2022. Model Search will be released under their flagship product NetsPresso.

April 19, 2022

We have a plethora of AI models being developed by numerous businesses. But these require a lot of time and resources. Because high-performance AI models are rapidly rising in size, and most AI models are too large for edge devices to manage, AI model optimization tools are now more important than ever.

January 17, 2022

January 17, 2022— Nota (CEO Myungsu Chae), an AI optimization technology company, announced that it has been promoted to Premier status in the NVIDIA Inception program. NVIDIA Inception nurtures cutting-edge startups revolutionizing industries with advancements in AI and data science.

December 1, 2021

Nota, an AI optimization platform startup, has acquired series B funding amounting to USD 14.7M that is announcing today. The series B funding was finalized last month, a year after the series A funding of USD 6.7M. The series B funding round joined by Stonebridge Ventures, LB Investment, DS Asset, Intervest, and Company K Partners. Nota has raised a total of $23M.

November 8, 2021

AI technology startup Nota announced its participation in NVIDIA GTC, which will be held online from November 8 to 11. GTC is a global technology conference hosted by NVIDIA, with hundreds of sessions focused on deep learning, data science, high-performance computing, and more. Nota is giving a GTC session titled “A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting, Operating, and Optimizing Vision AI Applications.”

May 14, 2021

Nota, a provider of automatic AI compression platforms, today announced it has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis Partner Program. The program is designed to nurture and bring to market a new generation of applications and solutions that make the world's most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient with advances in AI vision.

February 26, 2021

Nota’s “Pyeongtaek City Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Solution Pilot Project.” Introduced on Gyeonggi GTV.