Kakao Mobility Aims to Advance Autonomous Driving and Evolve into a "Physical AI Company"

Jin Kyu Kim, Head of Physical AI Division, Leads Company-wide All-Hands Meeting
Shares Strategies for Advancing Autonomous Driving... Strengthening External Collaboration

On May 4, Kakao Mobility announced that Vice President Jin Kyu Kim, who also serves as the head of the Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Division, held an internal all-hands meeting. During this meeting, Kakao Mobility expressed its ambition to become a "Physical AI company."

Kakao Mobility held the all-hands meeting for its employees at its Pangyo headquarters on April 30, focusing on the topic of autonomous driving. This was the first official in-person communication session since the establishment of the Physical AI Division and the appointment of Vice President Kim as its head.

Kakao Mobility announced on the 4th that Vice President and Head of Physical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Division, Jin-kyu Kim, conducted an all-hands (company-wide sharing meeting). Vice President and Head of Physical AI Division Jin-kyu Kim is giving a presentation at the all-hands meeting held on the 30th of last month. Kakao Mobility

Vice President Kim shared plans and goals for advancing autonomous driving based on the company’s proprietary technology. The strategy involves combining the infrastructure built through the Kakao T platform with in-house autonomous driving technology to establish a data pipeline and further enhance the end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving core model. In particular, the company aims to secure autonomous driving competitiveness by strengthening both software (SW) and hardware (HW) capabilities through three main areas: the advancement of the E2E autonomous driving model, the establishment of a verification pipeline for autonomous vehicles, and the development of an integrated intelligent autonomous driving safety management platform.

External collaboration will also be strengthened. Kakao Mobility plans to build an "open ecosystem" by not only engaging in joint development with various autonomous driving companies and academic institutions, but also expanding domestic autonomous driving partnerships.

Vice President Kim stated, "We plan to further advance the 'planner'—the core component responsible for decision-making in autonomous vehicles—using high-quality data, and to gradually apply this to services in the Gangnam area. By leveraging the data and technological capabilities of the Kakao T platform, we will add new technological value as a Physical AI and drive new mobility innovation."

The Physical AI Division at Kakao Mobility intends to hold monthly all-hands meetings to regularly enhance mutual understanding and strengthen organic communication between technical development teams and future business development units within the division.

Meanwhile, Kakao Mobility has been designated as a passenger transport operator for autonomous vehicles by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and has been operating Seoul Autonomous Vehicles for late-night service in Gangnam since March. The Seoul Autonomous Vehicles, which can be summoned via the Kakao T app, utilize Kakao Mobility’s proprietary hardware and software. These vehicles operate on weekdays during late-night hours (from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the following day).

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