Collaboration
NAVER LABS Europe is a hub of NAVER’s network of centres of excellence in Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Europe. By collaborating with different partners we aim to make AI technology more competitive around the globe. We have a strong R&D network built on excellence, common research interests and human relations that we’ve been developing since the early 90’s. Since joining NAVER in 2017, we have considerably enriched the number of strategic academic partners and collaborations with leading-edge organisations in AI for Robotics.
- AI Institutes: NAVER LABS Europe is a founding member of two of France’s four 3IA institutes (artificial intelligence interdisciplinary institutes).
- Academic Partners: We collaborate with leading edge organisations and have a longstanding PhD program.
- Entrepreneurs and Startups: NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.
- EU and Government Projects: EU and French Government projects and programmes underpin substantial scientific advances and innovation. We are a committed research partner in this community.
AI Institutes
The two 3AI institutes where NAVER LABS Europe plays a role is MIAI in Grenoble and PRAIRIE, based in Paris. We are the only industrial partner in the 3IA institutes to lead a research chair. All other chairs are led by a public research institute.
NAVER LABS Europe is a founding member of two of France’s four 3IA institutes (artificial intelligence interdisciplinary institutes) launched by the French government in 2018 as part of the national strategy for AI. The fundamental purpose of each of these institutes is to develop a comprehensive national programme for AI to develop and boost the research ecosystem, attract and support students and researchers in the field, improve France’s computing power and bolster European and international cooperation in AI.
- Lead chair on Machine Learning and Reasoning: “Lifelong Representation Learning”, Diane Larlus and Florent Perronnin
- Lead chair (since 2021) on Natural Language and Speech Processing: Artificial Intelligence & Language chair, Laurent Besacier
- Member of Fair and Evolvable AI: ‘Explainable and Responsible AI’ chair led by Patrick Loiseau and Marie-Christine Rousset
- Member of Robotics: Collaborative and Intelligent Systems chair led by Gerard Bailly and James Crowley
- Michel Gastaldo, Director of NAVER LABS Europe, MIAI industrial board member
The focus of MIAI in Grenoble is AI for health, the environment and energy.
NAVER LABS Europe also co-finances with the ANR (French national research agency) and INSA Lyon, the AI Chair called ‘REMEMBER: Learning Reasoning, Memory and Behaviour’ led by Christian Wolf which researches the relations between automated learning, optimal control and robotics.
EU & Government Projects
Another axe of collaboration includes partnering with private and public institutions in EU and French government projects such as the EU Future Emerging Technology project ‘Time Machine‘, the privacy project ‘SMOOTH‘ or the UTTER project using LLMs for eXtended reality (XR). We have over 30 years of experience in proposing and executing such projects and have successfully collaborated on dozens of projects across a number of domains.
Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality (UTTER)
The aim of the UTTER project is to leverage large language models (LLMs) to build the next generation of multimodal eXtended reality (XR) technologies for transcription, translation, summarisation, and minuting. We will make these technologies scalable, adaptable, contextualised, robust, explainable, and emotion-aware.
Entrepreneurs and Startups
NAVER is committed to making the market more diverse and helps stimulate the growth of new technologies and services. NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.
NAVER is committed to making the market more diverse and helps stimulate the growth of new technologies and services. NAVER not only invests directly in the growth of tech startups, it also offers exclusive workspaces with product and service development.
To boost the potential of European startups, in particular in artificial intelligence, and to help put these young business in contact with the Asian market NAVER has invested €200M in Korelya Capital. Companies they have invested in include Bitfury, Memrise and Ledger…
Academic Partners
Below is the list of current partners with whom we have research collaborations in place.
NAVER LABS Europe and the NAVER Global AI R&D belt.
30 seconds of our research in France and the NAVER Global AI R&D network [English version of Korean original].