Nota, a company specializing in AI model lightweighting technology, won a top-tier award at a domestic AI industry awards ceremony. Its achievements in applying on-device AI and physical AI were cited as key evaluation factors.

Nota announced on the 12th that it received the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award at the '2026 Korea Artificial Intelligence Industry Awards'.

The Korea Artificial Intelligence Industry Awards is an event that selects outstanding companies to support the growth of domestic AI firms. This year, approximately 2,350 companies were included in the evaluation.

Nota was awarded the Minister's Award, the highest honor, in recognition of its technological capabilities and growth potential in the field of on-device AI.

The company is developing lightweight and optimization technologies to support the efficient execution of AI models in various hardware environments. This technology is utilized for edge devices and the implementation of physical AI.

Nota has expanded cooperation with Samsung Electronics, Arm, Furiosa AI, Mobilint, and others, and has applied its technology to various semiconductor and AI environments.

In addition, they explained that they have secured technological competitiveness by presenting achievements at global AI academic conferences and industry events.

Nota provides the capability to analyze video data and detect hazardous situations in industrial sites through its vision language model-based video analysis solution, 'NVA'.

This solution is being utilized in various fields such as transportation, industrial safety, and smart cities, and is improving its functionality by combining with video search and summarization technologies.

The company announced that it plans to continue developing technology capable of real-time AI execution on various devices in response to the era of physical AI.