AI startup XIIlab's shares soar as new contract fuels earnings hopes

by Ryu Yuna Posted : August 4, 2026, 16:37Updated : August 4, 2026, 16:37
XIIlab presents its AI technologies including the Astrago platform and VidiGo video analytics service at NVIDIA GTC 2024 Photo captured from the companys website Courtesy of XIIlab
An XIIlab employee presents various AI technologies at a booth during NVIDIA GTC, a major global AI developer conference held in San Jose, California in March 2024, in this grab from the startup's website.
SEOUL, August 4 (AJP) - Artificial intelligence (AI) startup XIIlab saw its shares rise on the junior KOSDAQ on Tuesday. The stock closed at 11,020 won (US$7.93), up 17.23 percent from the previous session, after surging as much as 30 percent during the session to hit the daily price limit of 12,220 won.

The rise came after the startup announced that it had signed a contract worth 30.7 billion won with BNINC, an AI infrastructure provider, to supply software for the National IT Industry Promotion Agency's project to procure next-generation high-performance AI computing resources including 2,016 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs.

The deal, valued at nearly three times the company's annual revenue, raised expectations for a sharp increase in future earnings.

Running from Aug. 4 through March 2027, the deal follows a series of major AI infrastructure projects secured by XIIlab. Earlier this year, it signed a contract with Samsung SDS to support the construction of AI computing infrastructure, which provides the high-performance computing power needed for AI development.

It also won a contract last month to supply software for NVIDIA Spectrum-X, a networking platform designed to enable AI servers to communicate more efficiently.

Founded in 2010, XIIlab develops AI software that analyzes video to identify people, objects and events. It also creates synthetic data for AI training and develops GPU-based software used in AI computing systems.