K-Ground Ventures (KGV, CEO Cho Nam-hoon) announced that it has signed an MOU for cooperation on commercialization of AX in the energy sector with NX (CEO Nam Ju-hyun), an AI EMS (Energy Management System) company focused on energy savings, and Hypervisual AI (CEO Jung Sam-yoon), an AI semiconductor fabless company. Leveraging this MOU, the three companies plan to jointly develop and standardize technologies related to dedicated AI semiconductors (GPNPU) and actively pursue expansion into global markets.

NX has drawn attention as the only Korean company among the 22 key global EMS players selected in 2025 by Global Market Insights, while Hypervisual AI is regarded as an innovative company in the GPNPU field optimized for on-device applications. EMS experts expect that this AX agreement could provide an optimal solution to issues such as power consumption and noise associated with data center construction.

NX is building an “energy neural network” with approximately 300,000 devices installed at customer sites, securing building interior energy data at a world-class level and generating results through various energy efficiency projects based on this data. Recently, it received an “AA” grade in IP value and business feasibility evaluation from K-Ground Ventures, which operates the Scale-up TIPS program, and attracted investment for an IP project.

NX CEO Nam Ju-hyun said, “Through this joint development, customers in all spaces—from buildings and factories to homes—will be able to use NX’s energy AI agent ‘enbrix’ not only to reduce costs but also to ensure safety, including fire prevention.”

K-Ground Ventures, which led the signing of this MOU, is actively working to build a new AX investment ecosystem in the AI sector together with an investors’ council that includes KST (Korea Science & Technology Holdings, CEO Choi Chi-ho) and ACs, VCs, and PEs.

K-Ground Ventures CEO Cho Nam-hoon stated, “In the AX era, it is difficult to discover capable AI companies and create opportunities for AX achievements if individual investors invest alone in individual AI companies,” adding, “It is crucial to support capable AI startups with fundamental technologies and global IP so they can collaborate within a full-stack AX investment ecosystem, and to pursue a speed-focused strategy that makes bold, timely investments at each growth stage by combining growth-centered scale-up and expansion- and standardization-centered scale-out strategies according to AX projects.”

He added, “The AX-dedicated fund under development will evolve into a ‘Korean-style global AX investment ecosystem model’ by enabling public–private cooperation to provide both project support and investment opportunities to domestic and overseas startups, and by facilitating early achievement of results through follow-on investments from the AX-dedicated fund and the investors’ council when startups reach the targeted milestones at each stage.”

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