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We are an AI research & startup group based in Seoul from academia and industry. We work on research, open-source projects, and real-world applications to build the next leading AI startups.

We also invest in startups. Read more about our venture fund here.


Leadership


Research


Startups


Projects


Highlighted Events and Seminars

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Our Members

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Our community comes from Berkeley, CMU, Columbia, Cursor, Google, Google DeepMind, Harvard, KAIST, Krafton, LG, Naver, Oxford, Seoul National University, Stanford, Yale, and more.

Startups founded by our community are backed by a16z, Y Combinator, Mashup Ventures, FuturePlay, and Krew Capital.


Cohort Activities

  1. Orientation
    • Introduction of AttentionX and outline activities
    • Meet and greet new & existing members
  2. Interest-based Group Chats
    • Form groups based on research/startup interests (LLM, Diffusion, 3D, Robotics, Startups)
    • Attend group dinners to make friends with similar interests, with potential to collaborate
    • First opportunity to discuss ideas and form project teams
  3. MT
    • Get together in Seoul with fun games!
  4. Pitching Day
    • Pitch research/product agendas and ideas you want to pursue and recruit teammates for
    • Great way to see the research/startup landscape across fields and learn everyone’s interests
  5. Team Building
    • After Pitching Day, members apply to teams; team leads select who to accept
    • Team leads outline goals (publication, open-source project, or product development/launch) and drive execution
  6. Mid-term Presentations
    • Teams present progress toward their goals
  7. Final Presentations
    • Final presentations from each team
  8. Guest Speakers and Seminars
    • Occasionally (about once a month), we invite outside speakers or host joint seminars
    • In the past, we've hosted joint seminars with Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Krafton AI, RLWRLD; and hosted speakers including Sangdoo Yoon (Research Director, Naver AI Lab), Midjourney/Runway/OpenAI researchers, and a16z/YC founders
  9. Photo Gallery 🖼️

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Contact

attentionx.ai@gmail.com