I am Min-sik Kim, CEO of VIDRAFT. I am twenty-seven: a fourth-year computer engineering student at Korea Cyber University, currently on leave. I paused school to build this company, so my credentials will not tell you much.
So let me tell you what I have done instead. I am named inventor on 12 patent applications and co-author on 6 papers. All of that intellectual property belongs to VIDRAFT, by design, it is the company’s foundation, not my résumé.
The AGI axis holds Darwin, Chimera and AETHER. Darwin diagnoses a trained model (Model MRI) and breeds it across generations, three patents: reliability-weighted merging, cross-architecture breeding, recursive generational inheritance. Chimera decomposes a model’s knowledge structure and transplants it, which led to our own architecture, AETHER, eight patents covering heterogeneous attention on a Latin square and metacognitive verification. Eleven of our AI patents sit on this axis.
On quantum computing, I am a co-author on the paper that extended Even–Mansour period recovery on real IBM Heron hardware from the public record of N = 4 to N = 10. On the same axis we filed a substance patent for a progressive supranuclear palsy therapeutic compound, we search with quantum, and capture the value as substance IP.
On Physical AI, we attached an on-device model built on our own LLM to a Boston Dynamics Spot so that it understands and acts on spoken Korean. It runs today at the Seoul Robot & AI Science Museum.
I serve as principal investigator on two government programmes, the AI computing-resource utilisation project, completed and rated Excellent, and an ongoing advanced-GPU support programme.
Before that, I volunteered for signals duty and completed my military service. What I took from it was not how to work the equipment, but a plainer fact: once a connection drops, nothing else functions. The soundest judgement counts for nothing if it never reaches anyone.
And before I was someone who reads research, I was someone who gathered people to read it together. Some 15,000 people are active members of the communities I runArXivGPT, OpenFree AI and others, where we share new work every day. Much of VIDRAFT’s ability to absorb research quickly comes from there.
My ambition
I want to win a Nobel Prize in the sciencesPhysics, Chemistry, or Physiology or Medicine. Those are precisely the three domains we work in: quantum for physics, new materials for chemistry, drug discovery for medicine. That alignment is deliberate, not a coincidence.
And one ambition that should outlast me: a Max Planck Society for Korea. Germany’s Max Planck spent a century funding basic research that paid nothing in the short term, and produced more than thirty Nobel laureates. Korea does not yet have a vessel like that. I want this company to become one: earning from products, spending on fundamental research, and letting that research become the next product. That is why our business rests on two axes: solutions and services, and substance IP.
That is a large claim, which is exactly why we say only what has been verified. Please check our published models, papers and patents yourself. Exaggeration gets found out; the record remains.
