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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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Founders & leadership

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Moo-Kyoung ChunginFounder

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Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Dnotitia 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.

β–ΈFull profile β€” market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

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.

Compiled by commissioned research from 4 cited public sources β€” announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Datasets published on Hugging FaceJan 20252 datasets
Hugging Face organization team membersJan 202534 people
Industry experts working with the companyJan 2025100+
Major government LLM development projects wonJan 20259 projects
Models published on Hugging FaceJan 202548 models
Strategic partnerships across industriesJan 202534 partnerships

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β€” not independently audited.

Timeline Β· 5

launches, deals, and filings
Feb 2026
Release of DNA-VL-STEER-2B model

Vision-language model published to the company's Hugging Face organization.

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Jan 2026
Release of DNA3.0-397B-A17B-FP8 model

397B-parameter text generation model published to the company's Hugging Face organization.

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Jan 2025
Medical AI collaboration with Korea University Anam Hospital and Advanced Medical Imaging Research Institute

Collaboration aimed at applying AI to medical imaging to improve diagnostic and treatment accuracy.

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Jan 2025
Partnership with Finders on AI Planner insurance solution

Finders states it will refine its 'AI Planner' solution with Dnotitia to support insurance sales and coverage decisions.

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Jan 2025
Partnership with VESSL AI on LLMOps platform

VESSL AI will combine its LLMOps platform with Dnotitia's vector database expertise to help enterprises adopt, train and operate AI models.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

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primary sources listed

4 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

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.