Futurenuri (CEO Choo Jeong-ho), the company specializing in library and education solutions, developed an ‘AI Inference Service Platform (tentative name: Futurenuri.ai FAI) using Small Language Model (SLM) and Agentic RAG technology’ and presented an AI service optimized for the library environment through ‘User Conference 2025’, a customer gathering for its electronic library solutions held from May 29 to 30
‘Futurenuri.ai (tentative name)’ is characterized by effectively resolving the high computational cost and resource consumption issues of existing large-scale language models (LLM) while maintaining excellent response accuracy and consistency. In particular, considering that traditional LLM require high-performance GPU and high-cost infrastructure, making them difficult to introduce in environments with limited infrastructure, such as libraries, this lightweight model-based system is evaluated as having high practicality.
However, to this end Futurenuri collaborated with the research team of Professor Choi Seong-pil (KAIST Information and Communication Engineering Ph.D.) of the Department of Library and Information Science at Kyunghee University to perform fine-tuning on various SLM models, including Naver's 'HyperCLOVA X SEED 1.5B' specialized for Korean, Google's 'Gemma-3-1B' and 'Gemma-2-2B', and Alibaba's 'Qwen2.5'. Afterwards, the performance of each model was compared and verified with a focus on functions specialized for library work such as dissertation summaries, library material guides, and subject-based search support, and the implementation and integration into a multi-agent platform suitable for real environments was implemented.
at ‘User Conference 2025’, a customer gathering for its electronic library solutions
Futurenuri Information Technology Research Institute Director Byun Hoe-gyun said, “This system was designed with Chatbot functions to provide consistent responses to frequently requested questions from library users, such as library information, subject searches, data searches, and dissertation summaries,” and explained, “By introducing a multi-agent architecture based on the LangChain framework, we can analyze the intent of the question and automatically search and connect related documents to provide accurate responses.”
Director Byun also said, “The context maintenance function based on conversation history is included, enabling continuous information search beyond simple search, and we are currently preparing to apply functions such as automatic scoring after tests and evaluations, result analysis, and feedback to not only the overall library work but also our representative education solution, the IBT/CBT evaluation system.”
Futurenuri’s Strategy Business Division Director Seo Jong-hwan said, “We plan to actively pursue entry into overseas public and education markets, including Asia, based on the development of this AI agent platform,” and added, “Since the SLM-based lightweight AI solution is easy to localize and customize without expensive infrastructure, it can be practically introduced even in emerging countries and countries with many small and medium-sized organizations.” He continued, “Based on multilingual support and domain-specific expansion functions, its usability in the global library and education solution market is also highly evaluated,” and emphasized, “Through this technology, Futurenuri has laid the foundation to lead global AI innovation and expansion in specialized areas of the library and education market beyond Korea.”
Futurenuri’s CEO Choo Jeong-ho said, “In addition to the existing library and education sectors, we plan to widely apply this technology to new business sectors that we are entering, and leap forward as an AI specialist. To this end, we are continuously introducing and expanding AI infrastructure and promoting work to build and service our own SLM,” and added, “We plan to apply it in stages across all business sectors across the company.”
On the entering the India Futurenuri Digital Library market
Introduction to Futurenuri: A very specialized company in the library and Edutech fields, and is incorporating new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Metaverse into Digital Libraries and online evaluation systems. It has built digital libraries, online evaluations, learning management systems (LMS), video education platforms, and video platform solutions in about 800 domestic and international digital libraries and 60 Government evaluation agencies, and digital library products are receiving great acclaim from all over the world. Futurenuri's digital library customers have entered about 19 countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh. In addition, Futurenuri is a member of ICCK (Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea), so it needs an agreement with TCS for efficient entry into the Indian market.
