From left: Andre S. Yoon, CEO of MakinaRocks, and Tino Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Industries at Siemens Korea  

Strategic collaboration to lead the industrial edge AI market by integrating AI platforms with OT technologies  

“A meaningful first step in evolving the paradigm of edge devices—from automation to intelligence” 

SEOUL, South Korea, March 13, 2025 – MakinaRocks, South Korea’s leading AI company, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Siemens Korea Digital Industries (DI) to accelerate innovation in industrial edge AI. 

According to Fortune Business Insights, the global edge AI market is projected to grow from USD 27.01 billion in 2023 to USD 269.8 billion by 2032. Edge AI enables real-time data processing and decision-making on-site, reducing reliance on centralized servers. This minimizes latency, enhances data security, and improves responsiveness—making it increasingly critical in manufacturing and other industrial sectors. 

Through this strategic partnership, MakinaRocks and Siemens DI will work together to advance edge AI platforms and technologies, explore joint business opportunities, and support the digital transformation of industrial operations. Siemens DI brings world-class expertise in PLCs, IoT integration, digital twins, and edge computing—enabling flexible deployment and servicing of specialized solutions on the factory floor. 

By integrating its AI platform Runway with Siemens’ edge infrastructure, MakinaRocks enables the seamless development, deployment, and operation of tailored AI models for tasks such as anomaly detection, optimization, industrial LLMs, and machine vision. This synergy allows enterprises to implement and scale AI effectively in large-scale production environments—boosting agility, productivity, and operational intelligence. 

To date, MakinaRocks has implemented over 5,000 industry-specific AI models and is recognized for its technical leadership in enterprise-specific compound AI. Its proprietary AI platform, Runway, offers a full suite of operations management capabilities—including DataOps, MLOps, LLMOps, and MLSecOps (Machine Learning Security Operations). In the CB Insights’ MLOps Market Map, MakinaRocks was the only Korean company listed in the ‘AI Development Platforms’ category, alongside global leaders such as DataRobot, Databricks, Dataiku, Scale AI, and Hugging Face—recognized for delivering one of the most complete end-to-end enterprise AI solutions. 

"Partnering with Siemens DI, a global leader in manufacturing OT, marks a meaningful first step in evolving the paradigm of edge devices—from automation to intelligence,” said Andre S. Yoon, CEO of MakinaRocks. “We look forward to enabling hyperproductivity by bringing intelligence to the frontline of industrial operations.” 

“Our collaboration with MakinaRocks, Korea’s leading AI company, will bring AI competitiveness to Siemens DI’s OT technologies and edge solutions,” said Tino Hildebrand, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Industries at Siemens Korea. “By uniting the physical and digital worlds—and integrating hardware and software—we are committed to being a trusted partner to Korean industries in this era of AI transformation.”