• AI allows small teams to deliver big solutions for Korea’s biggest organisations.

• AIM Intelligence have developed localised AI safety tools that are minimising AI risks and maximising safety for large organisations across the country.

• By fine-tuning AI technology for the Korean market, AIM Intelligence is helping safeguard Korean businesses today, while laying the foundation to expand globally tomorrow. This would not have been possible without access to AI models like Llama Guard enabled by Meta.

AIM Intelligence, a Korean startup founded in early 2024, is building secure AI services for businesses across Korea. With a small team of engineers and researchers, they are developing solutions that make AI safer, more compliant, and more trustworthy.

At the core is AIM Supervisor, which powers two key products:

AIM Red: an automated tool that simulates sophisticated attacks on AI systems to discover vulnerabilities, and provide guidance before Korean companies put their AI agent into the real world.

AIM Guard: a detection and moderation tool that identifies and manages problematic behaviours in AI systems.

Llama models from Meta gave AIM Intelligence a solid foundation to build on. They used Llama Guard, a safeguard language model that classifies prompts and responses into risk categories, helping make chats with AI safer.

The team at AIM Intelligence fine-tuned Llama Guard with Korean language and culture specific datasets, creating their very own Llama Suho. This version now achieves a 99 percent defence success rate against harmful prompts, which is the highest in Korea.

Today, AIM Intelligence works with some of Korea’s largest telecom companies including KT, SK Telecom, and LG Uplus, as well as leading financial institutions and technology companies, like KB Kookmin Card, KB Securities, and LG Electronics. They’ve helped these companies overcome compliance risks and be able to deploy AI products safely.�

“Thanks to the ability to build on Llama models from Meta, we were able to develop our product and deliver value to clients in just two months,” says Skye Kim, one of AIM’s co-founders.

AIM’s success in Korea sets the stage for bigger ambitions. Their vision is to become a global company that lets service providers innovate freely, protecting users without limiting creativity.

Their work has already been recognised internationally. AIM was a recipient of the Llama Impact Innovation Award, and it has big plans moving forward.

As CEO Sangyoon Yu explains: “Our mission is to build trustworthy AI agents. Security and alignment are not just technical issues, they are essential for the future of superintelligence.”

AIM Intelligence shows how AI models from Meta can be tailored for local requirements and transformed into global innovations. By building on the Llama Guard model and refining it for Korean context, a small startup has:

This story shows that when open source meets local expertise, the result is not just compliance but creativity, trust, and progress that serves humanity.