RippleAI
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RippleAI develops AI that analyzes video content β recognizing people, speech, and events β to extract highlight edit points and apply metadata tags, helping shorten video editing time. It also offers its AI technologies (speech recognition, highlight extraction, cover-letter evaluation) via an API for developers building applications.
Also known as 리νμμ΄μμ΄
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026RippleAI (리νμμ΄μμ΄) is a Korean artificial intelligence company focused on multimodal AI solutions for video content, covering tagging, editing and production for domains such as education, film and broadcasting. The company was spun off from SNUVL, the Vision and Learning Lab of Seoul National University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, which conducts research in artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing.
The company markets two products. Clipper Biz is an AI service that interprets elements within video content β people, speech and events β and identifies context in order to extract highlight cutting points and apply meta tags, with the stated aim of shortening editing time on long-form video. Pado is a SaaS offering that exposes RippleAI's underlying AI capabilities, including speech recognition, highlight extraction and cover-letter evaluation, as open APIs that developers can call in a few lines of code to build applications ranging from speech recognition tools to video processing tools.
Founding story
RippleAI was established as a spin-off from SNUVL, the Vision and Learning Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University. Its founder and CEO is Gunhee Kim, an associate professor in computer science and engineering and AI at Seoul National University, who previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Disney Research and holds a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Business model
The company sells AI software for video content: Clipper Biz as an AI service for highlight extraction and meta tagging of video, and Pado as a SaaS product that delivers RippleAI's AI models through open APIs for integration into third-party applications.
Latest developments
The company's site links to 2025 press coverage, including an August 2025 SKT item on an SK Telecom consortium pursuing a domestic AI model with an academic-industry expert alliance, and a May 2025 Chosun Biz report on a Seoul National University conversational AI model that reproduces speech habits and filler words.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
The company positions itself around K-content and short-form video services, stating an aim to become a leading technology and culture company in the video media industry as content creation broadens.
Technology
Multimodal AI combining computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing to recognize people, voices and events in video, determine context, extract highlight cutting points and generate metadata tags. Additional models cover speech recognition and cover-letter evaluation, exposed through the Pado API layer.
Go-to-market
Products are offered directly through the company website in Korean and English, with a business-facing service (Clipper Biz) and a developer-facing API/SaaS product (Pado). The site also lists partners and investors sections and active recruiting.
Producers and processors of video content in education, film and broadcasting, along with developers building speech recognition and video processing applications on top of RippleAI's APIs.
Geography
Korea-based, with roots in Seoul National University; the website is published in Korean and English.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Timeline Β· 2
launches, deals, and filingsRippleAI's site lists an SKT press item dated 2025-08-04 about an SK Telecom consortium taking on the development of a top-tier independent AI model through an industry-academia expert alliance.
RippleAI's site lists a Chosun Biz article dated 2025-05-30 about a Seoul National University AI conversation model that imitates speech habits and filler words.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 7
primary sources listed
- RippleAIrippleai.co Β· web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does RippleAI do?
- Seoul National University spin-off building multimodal AI for tagging, highlight extraction and editing of video content.
- Who are RippleAI's investors?
- RippleAI's investors include Kakao Ventures.