Post by National AI Research Lab (NAIRL)

National AI Research Lab (NAIRL) recently ran an alpha test of "Craken," an AI-native research collaboration platform, together with its partner company Corca—a Korean AI startup and a service partner of OpenAI. Craken brings AI agents, team communication, file sharing, and knowledge management into a single environment, built around researchers' own papers and data. Researchers from the labs of Professor Kee-Eung Kim and Professor Tae-Hyun Oh at KAIST put it to work in their real research settings—using its AI agent to summarize papers into structured wiki documents, survey related literature, and organize the results into interconnected knowledge pages. The collaboration created value on both sides. For the participating researchers, it was a chance to apply AI agents directly to their own workflows and explore new ways of working. For Corca, it surfaced in-depth feedback comparable to detailed user interviews—insights now feeding directly into the product. And for NAIRL, it was an opportunity to do what it does best: bridging academia and industry to turn research environments into testbeds for emerging tools. Our thanks to the members of Professor Kim's and Professor Oh's labs for their time and insights. NAIRL will continue to expand industry-academia collaboration to build an AI research ecosystem that reflects the real needs of researchers. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gsmxXebU