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LG AI Research
6 developments involving LG AI Research in 3 countries and bodies. The most recent is Korea’s sovereign AI project cuts Motif and advances LG, SK Telecom and Upstage, 18 Aug 2026.
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- Korea’s sovereign AI project cuts Motif and advances LG, SK Telecom and Upstage
Korea’s state-backed frontier model will come from LG, SK Telecom or Upstage, and the weighting that cut the top benchmark scorer is under scrutiny.
- Korea cuts Naver Cloud and NC AI from its national AI model project; LG scores highest
Korean model developers learned the project’s originality rule is enforced: a team that reused foreign components without retraining lost state GPUs and data.
- Korea picks Naver Cloud, SK Telecom, LG, NC AI and Upstage to build national AI models
Five Korean developers received state support, starting with GPUs for three of them, to build domestic foundation models, with funding tied to surviving six-monthly cuts.
- LG AI Research releases EXAONE 4.0, a 32B open-weights model with a reasoning mode
Korean companies and researchers got a domestic open-weights model with reported scores close to leading open models from the US and China, released for research, academic and educational use.
- LG AI Research releases open weights for its EXAONE 3.0 7.8B model
Korean researchers and developers got downloadable weights for a Korean-English model from a domestic conglomerate’s lab, though the licence restricts them to non-commercial use.
- Eight technology firms and groups sign UNESCO commitment on AI ethics at Slovenia forum
UNESCO’s ethics Recommendation was addressed to governments, and this commitment applied it to companies that build and sell AI systems.