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NAVER Cloud

Big techSouth Korea

Cloud and AI subsidiary of NAVER whose Drone AI Team released the DroneCATS benchmark and a fine-tuned 2B drone VLA.

Overview

NAVER Cloud is part of the Korean internet company NAVER. Its Drone AI Team published DroneCATS in September 2026, a benchmark that evaluates multimodal LLMs as vision-language-action agents for drone commanding, approaching, tracking and searching, and released a fine-tuned 2B drone model on Hugging Face.

Sources: arxiv.org (1 Sep 2026) · huggingface.co (19 Oct 2026)

Type
Big tech
Website
github.com

Key people

  • Jaewoo ParkFirst author, DroneCATSarxiv.org, 1 Sep 2026
  • Geewook KimSenior (last) author, DroneCATSarxiv.org, 1 Sep 2026

Funding history

Corporate division · Team within NAVER Cloud; no separate funding.

Ranking

#54 of 104 model companies · score 30.9 / 100 · updated 19 Oct 2026

  • Published benchmarks 35%0%
  • Open weights 20%100%
  • Adoption 20%24%
  • Released models 15%20%
  • Disclosed funding 10%n/a

Each bar shows an input from 0 to 100% before weighting. 1 of 1 listed models have open weights. Most-starred official repository: naver-ai/DroneCATS (14 stars, 19 Oct 2026).

How we rank model companies

The score (0–100) measures public, checkable evidence about a company's robot models. It does not measure private capability. A company that publishes no benchmark results and no weights can still have strong models. Every input is computed from the data on each company page, and every number there links to its source.

InputWeightHow it is measured
Published benchmarks35%For each scored benchmark, the company's best result divided by the best result any company has published, averaged over the benchmarks it reports. No published results scores 0. Results come only from the model's own paper, model card or the official benchmark leaderboard. Scored: LIBERO (4-suite average success, %); SimplerEnv Google Robot, visual matching (%); SimplerEnv Google Robot, variant aggregation (%); SimplerEnv WidowX / Bridge (%); CALVIN ABC→D (average length, 0–5); RoboArena (pairwise rating).
Open weights20%Share of the company's listed models whose weights the public can download.
Adoption20%GitHub stars on the company's most-starred official model repository, on a log scale relative to the most-starred repository in the list. Hugging Face downloads are shown on company pages but not scored, because gated repositories report zero.
Released models15%Number of publicly announced, named models, capped at 5.
Disclosed funding10%The sum of the funding rounds listed on the company's profile that were disclosed in USD, on a log scale from $10M to the largest sum in the list. Rounds reported only in other currencies are listed but not converted or counted. This input applies only to private startups and robot makers. For big-tech divisions, research labs and listed companies it is n/a, and its weight is shared across the other inputs in proportion.

Sources. arXiv papers and official model cards for benchmarks and parameters; official leaderboards (RoboArena); the GitHub and Hugging Face APIs for stars and downloads; company announcements and established press for funding. Missing values are shown as n/a, never estimated.

Updated 19 Oct 2026. Benchmark protocols differ between papers, for example in fine-tuning and number of trials, so small gaps between close scores are not meaningful.

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Open-weights models (1)

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DroneCATS-Cosmos3-Edge-2B

Open weightsVLA

Drone VLA fine-tuned from Cosmos3-Edge that maps one camera frame and a command to one JSON action; released with the DroneCATS drone-control benchmark and tested on a DJI Tello.

Released
1 Sep 2026
Parameters
2B
License
OpenMDW-1.1
Embodiments
drone
GitHub stars
14 as of 19 Oct 2026
HF downloads (all time)
89 as of 19 Oct 2026

No benchmark results on a shared public benchmark have been published for this model.