South Korea's largest internet company, operator of the Papago translator and the HyperCLOVA X models.
Naver, founded in 1999, runs South Korea's most popular search portal and a broad set of services including webtoons, commerce and cloud. It developed Papago, a leading machine translation service for Korean, Japanese and Chinese, and HyperCLOVA X, a large language model trained with a strong focus on Korean. Naver Webtoon, now separately listed in the US, is one of the largest publishers of translated comics. Naver is a reference point for sovereign, locally trained AI models competing with US platforms in their home language.