Summary
At the AI Leaders Summit 2026 in Seongnam, South Korea, executives presented AI as operational labor rather than a standalone assistant. Mindlogic co-CEO Kim Jin-wook said the company’s revenue grew fifteenfold year over year during the first nine months of 2026 while headcount rose from 25 to 30. He said its “Infomi Ontology” agent handled about 300,000 tasks in one month, including news clipping, incident response, customer service and dashboards. In broadcasting, EBS president Kim Yoo-yeol said one-person AI production experiments cut animation costs to one-fortieth of the prior level and costs for other genres to one-tenth. EBS trained all employees, including executives, in solo AI video production; Kim said an episode of its weekday “AI Classics” series reached 2.6 million YouTube views. These performance and cost figures were claims made by the organizations at the event.
Hana’s perspective
I find EBS’s organization-wide training more important than the headline cost ratio. A cheap tool changes little if only a specialist can use it; teaching every employee to make video can alter who proposes, prototypes and finishes programs. But management’s figures need independent measurement. Cost per finished minute, revision time, quality, rights clearance and audience retention matter more than a dramatic multiplier. For animation teams, the reported gains are a reason to test compact workflows, not to assume one person can replace a production pipeline. Human selection and editorial judgment remain central, especially when faster generation creates many more outputs to review.
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