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2025 Year in Review: The Year of Tipping Points ๐Ÿ’ฅ

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December 31, 2025

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2025 Year in Review: The Year of Tipping Points ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Highlights

๐Ÿ”น Market Recognition & Business Momentum

๐Ÿ”น Ecosystem Expansion & Commercialization

๐Ÿ”น Technological Leadership & Reliability

๐Ÿ”นย Driving Industry Impact Worldwide

๐Ÿ”น Accelerating Product Innovation

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2025 marked a defining chapter for Nota AI โ€” the year when a decade of relentless effort converged into a true tipping point. Over the past ten years, countless moments of experimentation and breakthrough quietly accumulated. In 2025, that momentum finally reached critical mass โ€” transforming years of preparation into visible impact.

From becoming the first AI optimization company to successfully list on KOSDAQ, to achieving record revenue growth and accelerating global expansion, this was the year Nota AI moved from validation to leadership. As we step into our next decade, we reflect on the milestones, breakthroughs, and global momentum that defined this pivotal yearโ€”and set the course for what lies ahead.

Market Recognition & Business Momentum

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One of our most symbolic milestones this year was our entry into the public market. We became the first AI company in the optimization space to list on KOSDAQ, achieving an exceptionally fast IPO in just about a year. Despite tightened review standards, we secured preliminary approval in nearly two months, recorded institutional demand of 1,058:1. Following the listing, our share price saw a strong positive response and has since remained stableโ€”reflecting sustained confidence in our long-term growth.

Alongside this milestone, Nota AI delivered consistent revenue growth, achieving a CAGR of 98% from 2021 to 2025. In particular, this year was a record-breaking one, as we surpassed USD 7.0M (approximately KRW 10 billion) in annual revenueโ€”a tenfold increase in just two years since first reaching KRW 1 billion in 2023โ€”driven by the adoption of NetsPressoยฎ and the commercialization of on-device generative AI solutions. With this momentum as our foundation, Nota AI is ready to accelerate into its next phase of growth and global scale.

Ecosystem Expansion & Commercialization

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๐ŸŒ Global Footprint Across 9+ Countries

In 2025, Nota AI accelerated its global expansion beyond Korea, strengthening its presence across North America, Europe, and the Middle East, while actively entering new markets including the UAE, Singapore, and Kenyaโ€”expanding our footprint across countires.

Key milestones included:

  • Integrated NetsPressoยฎ with Qualcommยฎ AI Hub to advance on-device generative AI
  • Secured technology supply agreements for Samsung Exynos 2500 and 2600
  • Signed a supply agreement with Dubai RTA for generative AIโ€“powered ITS solutions
  • Delivered a Sony chipsetโ€“based smart traffic project in Lakewood, USA
  • Co-developed an ultra-compact edge driver monitoring system with Renesas

๐Ÿค 18+ New Strategic Partnerships Secured

Throughout the year, Nota AI strengthened its ecosystem through strategic partnerships across platforms, semiconductors, and national AI initiatives.

Key highlights included:

  • Selected as an NVIDIA Connect Partner, enabling deeper technical and go-to-market collaboration to scale NVA globally
  • Signed a PPA with Wind River, combining its mission-critical edge platform with NetsPressoยฎ for real-time generative AI at the intelligent edge
  • Expanded MOUs with Telechips, DEEPX, and FuriosaAI, deepening collaboration with Koreaโ€™s AI semiconductor leaders
  • Actively participated in national initiatives, including the World Best LLM (WBL) Project, the Manufacturing AX Alliance, and the Autonomous Vehicle MAX Alliance

Technological Leadership & Reliability

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This year, Nota AI strengthened its technological leadership by advancing not only innovation, but also compliance, security, and governanceโ€”laying a solid foundation for long-term trust and reliability.


With 215+ cumulative patent applications, Nota AI secured a 2.0% global share in AI learning and inference efficiency technologies, and was honored with the Ministerโ€™s Award at the 2025 ICT Patent Management Awardsโ€”underscoring our sustained leadership in AI optimization innovation.


Nota AIโ€™s ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) solution earned the highest grade in national Smart Intersection System and AIDS (Automatic Incident Detection System) evaluations by Koreaโ€™s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Building on this proven reliability, NVA (Nota Vision Agent) also achieved the KISA Intelligent CCTV Certification across key scenariosโ€”including loitering, intrusion, fall, and abandonmentโ€”demonstrating accurate, real-time AI performance where reliability matters most.


Through GDPR compliance, we ensure strict protection of customer and personal data. Our ISO 27001 certification validates a robust information security management system, while ISO 9001 demonstrates disciplined quality management across our development and delivery processes. Together, these standards ensure Nota AIโ€™s technologies are secure, reliable, and ready for enterprise and public-sector adoption.

Driving Industry Impact Worldwide

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Over the year, Nota AI continued to expand its influence across both academia and industryโ€”strengthening our position as a global leader in AI optimization and on-device generative AI.

๐Ÿ“œ Research Excellence

Our growing impact is reflected in 42 cumulative paper acceptances, including 6 newly accepted in 2025, at leading conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICML, and NeurIPSโ€”underscoring Nota AIโ€™s strong research-driven foundation.

Among these achievements, our paper โ€œA Study on Detecting LLM-Generated Multilingual Contentโ€ ranked 3rd out of 25 teams at the COLING 2025 DAIGenC Workshop, earning recognition in AI-generated text detection. In parallel, our paper โ€œVideo Self-Distillation for Single-Image Encodersโ€ was accepted at the ICML 2025 Workshop, advancing motion-aware perception for VLMs and laying important groundwork for physical AI.

๐Ÿ† Global Awards & Recognitions

This research-driven momentum translated into strong recognition across both Korea and global markets in 2025. To date, Nota AI has earned 34 cumulative awards and recognitions, reflecting our expanding global presence and growing leadership in AI optimization and on-device generative AI.

In particular, Nota AI was named to CB Insightsโ€™ AI 100 for 2025 and featured in the 2025 MAD Landscape โ€“ Edge AI category for the second consecutive yearโ€”standing alongside global leaders such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Apple, Intel, and AMD. These recognitions underscore our rising impact and credibility within the global AI ecosystem.

Accelerating Product Innovation

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2025 was a dynamic year of product innovation at Nota AI, as we transformed complex technical challenges into practical solutions that address evolving customer needsโ€”from AI optimization and generative AI deployment to next-generation video intelligence.

๐Ÿš€ NetsPressoยฎ Optimization Studio

As edge AI adoption grows, teams often struggle with the complexity of optimizing models across diverse semiconductor devices. NetsPressoยฎ Optimization Studio addresses this challenge with an intuitive interface powered by advanced layer-wise analysis and automated quantization. By visualizing critical layers and real-time performance metrics, it enables developers to make fast, data-driven decisions based on actual device behavior.

Bringing clarity, speed, and precision to edge AI development, NetsPressoยฎ Optimization Studio makes model optimization smarter, faster, and more accessible than ever.

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://optimization.netspresso.ai
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๐Ÿš€ LLM Optimization Service

Many organizations face the same barriers with LLMs and VLMs: models that are too large, too slow, and too costly to run in production. Our LLM Optimization Service bridges model internals and hardware constraints to enable efficient deployment across mobile, IoT, and server environments.

Through device-specific quantization and research-driven optimizations, it delivers faster inference and lower costsโ€”turning generative AI into a practical, production-ready capability.

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://netspresso.ai/llm
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๐Ÿš€ NVA (Nota Vision Agent)

Conventional vision systems can detect objects, but they struggle to understand situationsโ€”making it difficult to anticipate risks or interpret multiple conditions together, and often leading to missed detections when it matters most. Powered by Vision-Language Models (VLMs), NVA goes beyond detection to reason about context and risks, enabling proactive responses, high-accuracy real-time action tracking, and automated event summaries that drive operational efficiency.

In 2025, NVA became the first VLM-based intelligent video monitoring solution to be successfully deployed at an industrial site in Korea, proving its reliability in real-world safety-critical environments, including Kolon Industriesโ€™ plant. Today, NVA is setting a new standard for intelligent video monitoring across industries such as industrial safety, transportation, smart buildings, retail, and childcare.

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://nota.ai/ai-solutions-notavisionagent
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Looking Ahead

As we move beyond this tipping point, Nota AI enters its next chapter with greater clarity and ambition. What began as years of experimentation and steady breakthroughs has now become a foundation for scalable impactโ€”across products, partners, and markets.

In the coming year, we will focus on deepening the real-world adoption of on-device generative AI, expanding our ecosystem globally, and continuing to push the boundaries of AI optimization and intelligence at the edge. With the momentum built in 2025, we are ready not just to growโ€”but to lead the next phase of AIโ€™s evolution toward truly making AI Everywhere a reality.

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