Hyundai, Kia Invest in VAST Data After 42dot AI Rollout
VAST Data said Hyundai Motor and Kia made a strategic investment, citing 42dot's years of running VAST AI OS in its R&D environment.
VAST Data announced that Hyundai Motor and Kia made a strategic investment in the company on the 13th, according to datanet.co.kr.
The investment follows years in which 42dot, Hyundai Motor Group's software affiliate, operated VAST AI OS in its actual research and development environment. 42dot consolidated its ADAS and large language model development environments onto the VAST Data platform and an NVIDIA Hopper-based NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.
Hyundai and Kia said they plan to strengthen AI development pipelines for ADAS, large language models and robotics on a single high-performance data architecture.
VAST Data said its platform achieved a 2-to-1 data reduction rate for sensor and video data in real-world operation. The platform supports multi-protocol access, including S3 and network file system (NFS).
The company applied its DASE (Disaggregated Shared-Everything) architecture to serve large-scale GPU clusters.
Data platform behind the investment
VAST Data's disclosure ties the investment to a platform already handling autonomous-driving and language-model workloads, spanning storage protocols used by GPU clusters.
Quick answers
Who invested in VAST Data?
Hyundai Motor and Kia made a strategic investment in VAST Data, the company announced on the 13th.
What did 42dot run on the VAST Data platform?
42dot consolidated its ADAS and large language model development environments onto the VAST Data platform and an NVIDIA Hopper-based NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD.
What data reduction rate did VAST Data report?
VAST Data said its platform achieved a 2-to-1 data reduction rate for sensor and video data in real-world operation.