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Upstage

4 developments involving Upstage in 1 country or body. 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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  1. ProgrammeGovernmentSouth Korea
    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.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  2. Model releaseFrontierSouth Korea
    Upstage releases Solar Open 2, a 250 billion parameter Korean open model

    A Korean start-up released a 250-billion-parameter open model aimed at agent work.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  3. ProgrammeGovernmentSouth Korea
    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.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  4. ProgrammeGovernmentSouth Korea
    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.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)