Seoul, Mar. 21, 2024 – Upstage is excited to announce the launch of its advanced large language model (LLM), Solar Mini, on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Developers can now access Solar Mini through two key AWS services: Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning hub offering Solar Mini as a pre-built foundation model for easy integration into applications, and AWS Marketplace, a curated software catalog that simplifies deployment of Solar Mini. With these options, businesses can leverage Upstage's expertise in generative AI without the need to build models from scratch.

Solar Mini is a versatile language powerhouse, excelling in a wide range of tasks in both Korean and English, including understanding and summarizing text, accurate translation, and even content generation. This versatility empowers businesses to develop innovative applications tailored to their specific needs, with Thai and Japanese language support coming soon.

Another advantage of Solar Mini is its cost-effectiveness. The model's smaller size (10.7 billion parameters) allows for efficient inference at lower costs compared to larger models. Additionally, Upstage's pre-trained model saves developers valuable time and resources typically required for model training from scratch. Customers can simply fine-tune Solar Mini using their domain-specific data.

The power behind Solar Mini comes from a combination of cutting-edge techniques and collaboration. Upstage leveraged the power of AWS, particularly Amazon SageMaker, to train the model. Upstage's advanced data pre-processing and fine-tuning techniques, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), ensured the model's cultural understanding and factual accuracy.

Solar Mini's excellence was recognized in December 2023 by Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard, achieving the top spot among open-source large-scale SLM models. This achievement highlights Solar Mini's ability to compete with larger models while offering significant cost savings on processing power.

“From day one, we’ve designed Upstage to become a global AI player,” said Sung Kim, CEO of Upstage. “As Upstage’s preferred cloud provider, AWS has supported us in every step of this journey with programs like AWS Activate to access credits and technical support to rapidly scale our business. Today, we are thrilled to deepen our relationship with AWS to launch our SOLAR MINI model on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, which opens up new possibilities for companies around the world to use the Korea’s most versatile LLM. Upstage is committed to redefining the AI landscape and delivering the most reliable and innovative AI solutions for corporate applications.”

“Upstage’s SOLAR MINI on AWS is a powerful solution that helps enterprises of all sizes to easily embrace generative AI at the local level,” said Jeongwon Yoon, country director, worldwide public sector, AWS Korea. “Language models are evolving rapidly and Upstage is at the forefront of this innovation, taking advantage of AWS’s secure and scalable stack to expand its AI offerings and provide organizations across industries with the tools they need to easily deploy generative AI to their applications.”