Press Release
June 22, 2026
SEOUL, South Korea, June 22, 2026 / --Nota AI (CEO Myungsu Chae), a company specializing in AI model compression andoptimization, announced its participation as a core technology partner in theCheonan-Asan Consortium, which was recently selected as the final site for theChungcheong region in the 'AI-Specialized Pilot City' public contest projecthosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT).
Breaking through the data isolationlimits of conventional smart cities, the AI-Specialized Pilot City is alarge-scale national project where AI transforms urban data into knowledgeassets to autonomously manage citizens' daily lives. The project will span fiveyears from 2026 to 2030, with a total budget of KRW 610.9 billion.
Based on an integrated urbanintelligence center and a digital twin platform, the Cheonan-Asan Consortiumplans to demonstrate autonomous AI agent services in the fields of disastermanagement, traffic, and civil complaints. Within this framework, Nota AI willbe responsible for edge AI optimization and on-device AI applicationtechnologies to ensure the stable deployment of urban AI services within actualinfrastructure.
Specifically, Nota AI plans to compressand optimize AI models used in urban fields—such as traffic, safety, weather,disaster, and environment—to fit various edge environments. By combining thiswith a Large Language Model (LLM)-based automated reporting system andon-device AI technology, the company will establish a structure where AIperceives, summarizes, and disseminates urban situations. This enablesreal-time urban data from CCTVs, sensors, traffic feeds, and disaster updatesto be analyzed directly on-site and rapidly converted into actionable insightsfor control centers and response teams, thereby supporting the AI-City's rapidawareness, judgment, and response system.
The project is also highly significantas a Sovereign AI-based urban service case that merges domestic AI models,localized urban data, and edge execution technology. The Cheonan-AsanConsortium will establish a proprietary AI ecosystem tailored to regional databased on Upstage's Korean-optimized LLM. Nota AI will provide the compressionand optimization technology necessary for these AI services to run stably onedge infrastructure and terminal devices across the city. This marks a criticalstep forward, as it delivers the operational execution technology required totransition Sovereign AI from mere model ownership into practical publicservices.
This participation represents a majormilestone where Nota AI's on-device AI optimization technology scales beyondindividual devices and industrial sites into city-scale public infrastructure.Nota AI has continuously advanced its optimization technologies to efficientlyrun AI models across diverse hardware environments, including smartphones,automobiles, robots, and industrial equipment. In this Cheonan-AsanAI-Specialized Pilot City project, the company focuses on extending thesetechnological capabilities into urban infrastructure to realize AI servicesthat citizens can directly experience.
Furthermore, the city-scale AI servicemodels secured through this project hold the potential to expand into domesticand international smart cities, public safety, traffic control, and disasterresponse sectors. Starting with Cheonan-Asan, Nota AI intends to contribute tobuilding a standard model for K-AI cities—where AI perceives, judges, andresponds to urban challenges—while broadening its technology application scopewithin the on-device AI and physical AI markets.
Myungsu Chae, CEO of Nota AI, stated,"An AI city is not merely a city that collects a vast amount of data, butone where AI understands the data generated on-site and connects it tonecessary responses." He added, "Leveraging our AI model optimizationand on-device AI technologies, Nota AI will play a pivotal role in ensuringthat the Cheonan-Asan AI-Specialized Pilot City establishes itself as thedefinitive benchmark for South Korea's K-AI cities."
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