Dnotitia
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Korean AI company building Seahorse, a vector database, and Mnemos, an on-device LLM appliance, alongside its DNA models.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Dnotitia is an AI and data infrastructure company established in 2023. Its work centers on "vector intelligence": converting multimodal data into searchable vector representations and serving retrieval and inference workloads at low cost. The company's two flagship products are Seahorse, a vector database intended for large-scale multimodal semantic search and positioned around speed, accuracy, cost efficiency, filtering and automated tuning, and Mnemos, an edge AI device described as a personal LLM device that runs models locally without data-center or cloud infrastructure through LLM optimization and compression, low-power operation and automatic tuning and deployment.
Alongside the hardware and database layers, Dnotitia develops small language models (SLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, and offers an AI Console focused on secure operation and data privacy. Its GenAI assistant is built on the in-house DNA (Dnotitia AI) foundation model family, which the company positions for Korean-language and Korean-cultural understanding with English support. Dnotitia distributes models publicly through a Hugging Face organization with 48 models and 2 datasets listed, including DNA 3.0 variants (such as a 397B-parameter DNA3.0-397B-A17B-FP8 release and image-text-to-text models ranging from roughly 1B to 123B parameters), patched Qwen3 chat-template releases, and a research paper on making Qwen3 reason in Korean using reinforcement learning. It also operates a public leaderboard site benchmarking major LLMs on Korean.
Business model
Dnotitia sells AI infrastructure products: the Seahorse vector database (including a Seahorse Cloud service offered with free starter credits), the Mnemos edge LLM device, and an AI Console for private/secure AI deployment. It also publishes open model weights and datasets on Hugging Face.
Traction
The company cites more than 100 industry experts working with it, 9 or more major government LLM development projects won, and 34 or more strategic partnerships across industries. Its Hugging Face organization lists 48 models, 2 datasets, 8 collections and 34 team members, with datasets of roughly 10M and 9.55M rows and model downloads in the tens to hundreds per listing.
Latest developments
Recent model publishing activity includes DNA-VL-STEER-2B and DNA3.0-397B-A17B-FP8, and the company promotes Seahorse Cloud for building AI agents from customer data as well as a leaderboard comparing major LLMs in Korean.
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Market position
Positions itself as a Korean AI company combining a proprietary vector database, edge LLM hardware and Korean-focused foundation models, competing on inference cost and performance relative to traditional database and cloud-based LLM approaches.
Combination of a purpose-built vector database accelerated by a proprietary VDPU, an on-premise/edge personal LLM device that avoids cloud dependence, and foundation models tuned for Korean language and cultural context.
Technology
Seahorse is a vector database supporting multimodal semantic search, advanced filtering and automated efficiency, and is described as powered by a proprietary Vector Data Processing Unit (VDPU). Mnemos applies LLM optimization and compression with a compatible SLM foundation model for low-power, high-performance on-device inference and automatic tuning/deployment. The DNA foundation model family underpins the company's GenAI assistant, with published variants spanning text generation, sentence similarity and image-text-to-text tasks; company research covers reinforcement learning to elicit Korean-language reasoning in Qwen3.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales and partnerships across industries, a self-serve Seahorse Cloud console with free credits, participation in government LLM development projects, and open distribution of models and datasets on Hugging Face together with a public Korean LLM leaderboard.
Enterprises processing large-scale, complex or multimodal data, plus sectors reached through partnerships including insurance (Finders' AI Planner solution), MLOps/LLMOps platform vendors (VESSL AI) and healthcare providers (Korea University Anam Hospital and the Advanced Medical Imaging Research Institute).
Geography
Korea-focused, with a bilingual Korean/English website and models and benchmarks oriented toward the Korean language market.
History
Established in 2023, Dnotitia developed the Seahorse vector database and the Mnemos edge AI device, and has since released successive generations of its DNA foundation models, including the DNA 3.0 family.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 5
launches, deals, and filingsVision-language model published to the company's Hugging Face organization.
397B-parameter text generation model published to the company's Hugging Face organization.
Collaboration aimed at applying AI to medical imaging to improve diagnostic and treatment accuracy.
Finders states it will refine its 'AI Planner' solution with Dnotitia to support insurance sales and coverage decisions.
VESSL AI will combine its LLMOps platform with Dnotitia's vector database expertise to help enterprises adopt, train and operate AI models.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Dnotitia do?
- Korean AI company building Seahorse, a vector database, and Mnemos, an on-device LLM appliance, alongside its DNA models.
- Who are Dnotitia's investors?
- Dnotitia's investors include Kiwoom Investment.