LG Uplus and chip startup FuriosaAI have joined forces to create a new kind of artificial intelligence system for businesses that demand the highest level of security. The two South Korean companies signed an agreement at the Mobile World Congress in Spain to build what they call the “Sovereign AI Appliance.”
This new product is essentially an “AI in a box.” It is designed to run entirely inside a company’s own private network, without ever sending sensitive data out to the public cloud. Businesses just plug it into the wall and connect it to their internal systems, bypassing the need to build a complex, expensive AI server farm from scratch.
This extreme level of privacy is a huge selling point. It makes the Sovereign AI Appliance perfect for industries that handle highly confidential information, such as the military, hospitals, banks, and advanced research labs, which often cannot legally or safely use standard cloud-based AI tools.
The hardware itself combines the strengths of both companies. It will use LG’s enterprise AI platform and its advanced “EXAONE 4.0” language model. To power all that software, the appliance will rely on FuriosaAI’s new RNGD chip. This specialized chip is designed to handle heavy AI workloads with incredible efficiency, keeping power consumption and operating costs low even when many employees are using the AI at the same time.
LG Uplus executives emphasized that real-world businesses need more than just smart AI; they need absolute security and reliability. This partnership aims to deliver exactly that. The companies plan to customize the system so it can instantly search internal documents, summarize reports, and automate daily tasks without ever leaking a drop of data to the outside world.
This project is just the beginning for the two companies. They already plan to expand their partnership to build even more advanced AI infrastructure, including super-fast systems designed specifically to control industrial robots and heavy machinery.
