South Korea's Rebellions raises $400B to take rack-scale AI platform global

SK Telecom-backed AI chip startup Rebellions has raised $400 million in a pre-IPO funding round to support its global expansion with a new rack-scale compute platform aimed at enterprises and sovereign clouds.

Founded in late 2020, the startup produces AI accelerators that have been deployed in numerous applications in the South Korean domestic market.

Initially, "we focused a great deal on telcos, service providers, and enterprise-end users within the Korean market," Rebellions chief business officer Marshall Choy told El Reg. "We built up use cases around everything from call centers and customer service to CCTV surveillance for the national highway system."

"We're in a very strong position to take those learnings, capabilities, and improvements we've done over the years and bring that out to other regions, outside of Korea, as less of a fresh start, but more of a rinse and repeat type of motion," he added.

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