Kakao

Kakao is at the forefront of technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence, securing a #25 rank on the AI innovations leaderboard among the top 100 tech companies. Kakao has released 50 AI-driven solutions in the last 6 months alone. Among those innovations, Text, Business and Miscellaneous represent 70% of their AI-related product releases. Below is a breakdown of Kakao's most recent AI Innovations by category and full list of their AI-related developments updated daily.

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Updated May 24, 2025

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Kakao's AI Innovations

Nov 01, 2024 - May 25, 2025

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Kakao's AI Innovations by Type

Nov 01, 2024 - May 25, 2025

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Date	Innovation Name	Type	Category	Description
05/24/2025	Kanana	Product	Text	Kakao's language model with top-level Korean and English performance.
05/24/2025	Kanana	Product	Text	Self-developed language model released as open source.
05/23/2025	Kanana Language Models	Product	Text	Open-source release of four Kanana language models by Kakao.
05/08/2025	Kana	Feature	Text	Group mate for summarizing discussions and organizing schedules.
05/08/2025	Nana	Feature	Text	Personal mate for tailored responses in chats.
05/08/2025	Kanana	Service	Text	AI service for personalized chat assistance and context understanding.
05/08/2025	Generative Search	Service	Text	AI-powered search service in collaboration with OpenAI.
05/08/2025	Vertical AI Recommendations	Service	Business	AI service offering specialized recommendations in vertical markets.
05/08/2025	AI Mate Local	Service	Miscellaneous	AI service for local information and context-aware interactions.
05/08/2025	AI Mate Shopping	Service	Business	AI service for enhancing shopping experiences with context-aware responses.
05/08/2025	Kanana	Service	Miscellaneous	AI service starting with CBT, enhancing user engagement.
05/01/2025	Streaming Speech Synthesis Technology	Feature	Audio	Enables real-time response generation without long delays.
05/01/2025	Korean Speech Tokenizer	Feature	Audio	Breaks down audio signals into smaller units for processing.
05/01/2025	Speech Emotion Recognition Technology	Feature	Audio	Accurately interprets user intentions through speech emotion analysis.
05/01/2025	Kanana-a	Product	Audio	Audio language model for understanding and generating speech.
05/01/2025	Kanana-o	Product	Miscellaneous	Integrated multimodal model for text, voice, and image processing.
04/30/2025	DD	Feature	Text	Content curation chatbot recommending personalized and popular content.
04/22/2025	Helix Shorts	Service	Video	AI-driven webtoon preview service creating short video content.
04/18/2025	Kakao I Connect Center	Service	Business	Provides conversational platform for accurate customer response services.
04/18/2025	Kakao I Connect Talk	Feature	Business	Enhances KakaoTalk channels with advanced machine learning capabilities.
04/11/2025	AI Work Support Features	Feature	Business	AI features for Kakao Work 2.0 to aid SMEs.
04/11/2025	Kakao Work 2.0	Product	Business	AI-enhanced corporate solution for SMEs with work support features.
03/27/2025	Annotation Automation Tools	Feature	Data Science	Tools for automating annotation tasks in AI data processing.
03/24/2025	FanFinder	Service	Business	AI chatbot service for analyzing non-profit organization donors.
03/24/2025	Peach Library Easy Translation Tool	Service	Text	AI web service for easy and efficient text translation.