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UPI
4 days ago
- Business
- UPI
LG Group unveils next-generation hybrid AI model
LG Group has unveiled its own hybrid artificial intelligence model. Pictured is the company headquarters in Seoul. Photo courtesy of LG Group SEOUL, July 16 (UPI) -- LG Group, one of South Korea's major conglomerates, has unveiled a next-generation hybrid artificial intelligence model, EXAONE 4.0, in aiming to join the global AI race along with powerhouses in the United States and China. The Seoul-based group's unit, LG AI Research, said Tuesday that the new model integrates natural language processing capabilities with advanced reasoning skills, built on its large language model EXAONE Deep. "It inherits the step-by-step, thought-based problem-solving approach that EXAONE Deep implemented, and advances its reasoning capabilities to excel even in challenging fields such as math, science and coding," the firm said in a statement. "Starting with EXAONE 4.0, the free licensing previously granted for research and academic purposes has been extended to educational institutions," it added. As a result, primary and secondary schools, as well as universities, will be allowed to use EXAONE 4.0 for educational purposes without prior approval. The model is available through Hugging Face, a global AI open-source platform, according to LG. EXAONE 4.0 comes in two versions: one for experts and the other for the public. LG said that the expert model has passed national qualification exams in six areas, such as qualifying for physician and dentist licenses. The lighter on-device version is designed to run independently without having to connect to external servers. With the launch of EXAONE 4.0, LG could be poised to take on global AI leaders. "Only a few corporations have come up with competitive hybrid AI models, including Anthropic of the U.S. and Alibaba of China," Sogang University Professor Yoon Seok-bin told UPI in a phone interview. "LG was somewhat late in debuting its own hybrid AI model compared to its offshore rivals. But there is a long way to go in developing and refining AI technology. LG may yet be able to compete on the global stage," he saidOh, what is .
Korea Herald
5 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG Unveils Korea's First Open-weight Hybrid AI, 'EXAONE 4.0'
Proving Superior Performance in Benchmarks Against Leading Open-Weight Models from the US, China, and France. SEOUL, South Korea, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 15, the LG AI Research unveiled EXAONE 4.0, the first open-weight hybrid AI model in Korea. EXAONE 4.0 is a groundbreaking model that integrates a Large Language Model (LLM), which excels in natural language processing, generation, and knowledge-based rapid responses, with a reasoning AI model capable of forming and verifying hypotheses to solve problems. Currently, only a few global players, such as Anthropic (developer of Claude) in the US and Alibaba (developer of Qwen) in China, have released hybrid AI models. OpenAI has also stated that it is developing GPT-5 as a hybrid AI, an integrated model. Following the release of EXAONE Deep, Korea's first reasoning AI model, in March, LG AI Research has now unveiled EXAONE 4.0, the country's first hybrid AI model, just four months later, further enhancing its competitiveness in the global AI market. In particular, 'EXAONE 4.0' has proven itself to be world-class, surpassing leading open-weight models from the United States, China, and France in benchmark comparisons evaluating AI model performance. EXAONE 4.0 achieved scores of 92.3/81.8 on MMLU-Redux/MMLU-Pro (World knowledge), 66.7 on LiveCodeBench v6 (Code), 75.4 on GPQA-Diamond (Science), and 85.3 on AIME 2025 (Mathematics). LG AI Research has released EXAONE 4.0 as an open-weight model on Hugging Face, a global open-source AI platform, for research, academic, and educational purposes. While open-weight models do not disclose the AI model's design or training data, they do reveal the weights, which allow for understanding the AI's data processing methods, enabling modification or redistribution. Examples of prominent open-weight models include Google's Gemma, Meta's Llama, Microsoft's Phi from the US, Alibaba's Qwen from China, and Mistral AI's Mistral from France. "LG AI Research will continue our research and development to ensure EXAONE becomes a leading frontier model representing Korea, proving its competitiveness in the global market," said Jinsik Lee, Head of EXAONE Lab at LG AI Research. LG AI Research plans to hold the 'LG AI Talk Concert 2025' on July 22 at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul, where it will announce its AI technology research and development achievements, including EXAONE 4.0, and future plans. LG AI Research has unveiled a 32B (32 billion parameters) expert model and a 1.2B (1.2 billion parameters) on-device model. The 32B expert model demonstrated a high level of expertise by passing the written exams for six national professional qualifications, including doctor, dentist, herbal pharmacist, customs broker, appraiser, and Insurance adjuster. LG AI Research expects EXAONE 4.0 to provide highly accurate answers in fields requiring specialized knowledge, delivering essential and exceptionally valuable solutions to customers. LG AI Research has focused on developing a practical on-device model that can be directly utilized in various devices such as home appliances, smartphones, automotive infotainment systems, and robots. On-device models offer strong advantages in terms of privacy protection and security, as they can process information quickly and securely within the electronic device without connecting to external servers. This model is half the size of the EXAONE 3.5 2.4B model released last December, making it lighter and more economical. Despite its smaller size, it outperformed OpenAI's GPT-4o mini in specialized evaluation metrics for mathematics, coding, and science, demonstrating the highest level of performance among AI models of similar scale worldwide. LG AI Research plans to take the lead in the rapidly expanding on-device AI market with EXAONE. To popularize AI technology, LG AI Research has partnered with FriendliAI, Hugging Face's official AI model distribution partner, to launch the API service for EXAONE 4.0. This partnership allows anyone, from individual developers to enterprises, to easily utilize EXAONE or integrate it into their services without the need for high-performance GPUs. LG AI Research expects the API release to be a significant turning point, accelerating the adoption of AI technology across various industries. On July 15, LG AI Research hosted 'EXAONE Partner's Day', where it discussed ways to activate cooperation within the EXAONE ecosystem with 22 partner companies. Meanwhile, LG Corporation Chairman and CEO Kwang-mo Koo, emphasized in his New Year's address this year, "The many moments of challenging new areas and creating unprecedented value have built today's LG." He added, "We will make advanced technologies like AI conveniently usable in daily life, creating a new lifestyle where valuable time can be spent on more enjoyable and meaningful activities." About LG Group LG Group is a leading global company representing South Korea, offering innovative products and services across various industries such as electronics, chemicals, telecommunications, and energy. Established in 1947, LG Group has grown into a world-renowned brand through its activities in these diverse fields. The company is committed to continuous research and development, focusing on innovation to enhance the quality of life for its customers. Emphasizing its role as a socially responsible enterprise, LG Group is striving to strengthen its competitiveness in the global market and achieve sustainable growth through its future portfolio in areas like AI, Bio, and Cleantech. The company is dedicated to realizing its vision of being a business that provides value to customers and society, pursuing this mission with unwavering determination. For more information, visit About LG AI Research Launched in December 2020 as the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korea's LG Group, LG AI Research aims to lead the next epoch of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize a promising future by providing optimal research environments and leveraging state-of-the-art AI technologies. And LG AI Research developed its large-scale AI, EXAONE, a 300 billion parametric multimodal AI model, in 2021. EXAONE, which stands for "Expert AI for Everyone," is a multi-modal large-scale AI model that stands out from its peers due to its ability to process both language and visual data. With one of the world's largest learning data capacities, LG AI Research aims to engineer better business decisions through its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies and its continuous effort on fundamental AI research. For more information, visit
Associated Press
18-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
LG unveils New AI Model ‘EXAONE Deep'
LG AI's 'EXAONE Deep' marks a milestone in AI innovation, offering unparalleled reasoning capabilities and setting a new standard in the global AI landscape. SEOUL, South Korea, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LG AI Research unveiled 'EXAONE Deep,' a globally focused reasoning AI model, as open source on the 18th. The release of 'EXAONE Deep' is significant as it proves the competitiveness of Korea's own 'Reasoning AI' in the global AI market. LG AI Research introduces EXAONE Deep by participating in NVIDIA's annual developer conference (GTC) held in San Jose, California, USA, from the 17th to the 21st local time. Opening the Era of 'Agentic AI' by Developing Reasoning AI, Setting and Verifying Hypotheses Independently LG AI Research announced the transition to the 'Agentic AI' era by releasing its own advanced reasoning model, 'EXAONE Deep.' Agentic AI refers to an active AI capable of making autonomous decisions by independently formulating hypotheses and conducting inferences to verify them. To implement this, the development of 'Reasoning AI' beyond the existing 'Knowledge AI' is essential. Currently, among the few global companies developing their own reasoning AI with foundation models, 'EXAONE Deep' is Korea's first to achieve this milestone.. The 32B (32 billion parameter) Model Achieves World-Class Performance with a remarkably small parameter size EXAONE Deep-32B (32 billion parameters) demonstrated exceptional efficiency and achieved remarkable performance, operating at just 5% of a very large competitor model.. LG AI Research released various performance evaluation results on the global open-source AI platform Hugging Face, assessing the logical reasoning skills and problem-solving capabilities of three 'EXAONE Deep' models with different parameters. 'EXAONE Deep-32B' proved its excellence in solving complex mathematical and scientific problems. In particular, 'EXAONE Deep-32B', based on the EXAONE foundation model with strengths in Korean, recorded the highest score of 94.5 in the 2025 CSAT mathematics area and achieved the top grade in all elective subjects (probability and statistics, calculus, geometry). Also, it recorded 95.7 points in MATH-500, an index evaluating mathematical problem-solving capability. 'EXAONE Deep-32B' also achieved excellent performance in indicators evaluating doctoral-level scientific reasoning capabilities in physics, chemistry, and biology. It recorded 66.1 points in the GPQA diamond test, which evaluates scientific problem-solving ability, outperforming competition with reasoning AI models of similar parameter scale, and also showed competitive performance with 59.5 points in LiveCodeBench, which evaluates coding ability. LG AI Research expects that 'EXAONE Deep' will be highly utilized not only in professional fields required by industries in the future but also in scientific research and education fields such as physics and chemistry by showing high performance in evaluation indicators of specialized fields such as mathematics, science, and coding. 'EXAONE Deep-32B' was recognized for its technological competitiveness by being listed on the 'Notable AI Models' list selected by the US non-profit AI research organization Epoch AI with its open-source release. LG's AI Technology Maintains Overwhelming Performance While Significantly Reducing Model Size LG AI Research also released the lightweight model 'EXAONE Deep-7.8B' and the on-device model 'EXAONE Deep-2.4B' developed with 'EXAONE Deep-32B' as open source. The lightweight model maintains up to 95% of the 32B's performance despite being 24% of its size, and the on-device model has 86% of the performance despite being 7.5% of its size, possessing both high economic efficiency and practicality. An official from LG AI Research said, 'We announced EXAONE Deep about a month after attending the domestic AI industry competitiveness diagnosis and inspection meeting held at the National Artificial Intelligence Committee in February and foreshadowing the open-source release of a DeepSeek R1-level model soon,' and added, 'The core of LG's AI technology is maintaining performance while significantly reducing model size.' In fact, the performance of the lightweight model 7.8B exceeded that of other leading lightweight models, and the 2.4B on-device model also showed world-class results in performance comparisons with equivalent models. In particular, the on-device model has strengths in terms of security and personal information protection by safely processing data within the device without connecting to an external server. LG AI Research anticipates on-device models to rapidly spread in various industries such as smartphones, automobiles, and robots. LG AI Research plans to lead the on-device AI market by enhancing models with LG affiliates such as LG Electronics and LG U+. Meanwhile, Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of LG Group emphasized in his New Year's address this year, 'The current LG has been built by accumulating many moments of challenging new areas and creating unprecedented value,' and added, 'We will create a new lifestyle where people use cutting-edge technologies such as AI conveniently in their daily lives, allowing them to spend their precious time on more enjoyable and meaningful tasks.' For more information, visit About LG Group LG Group is a leading global company representing South Korea, offering innovative products and services across various industries such as electronics, chemicals, telecommunications, and energy. Established in 1947, LG Group has grown into a world-renowned brand through its activities in these diverse fields. The company is committed to continuous research and development, focusing on innovation to enhance the quality of life for its customers. Emphasizing its role as a socially responsible enterprise, LG Group is striving to strengthen its competitiveness in the global market and achieve sustainable growth through its future portfolio in areas like AI, Bio, and Cleantech. The company is dedicated to realizing its vision of being a business that provides value to customers and society, pursuing this mission with unwavering determination. About LG AI Research Launched in December 2020 as the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korea's LG Group, LG AI Research aims to lead the next epoch of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize a promising future by providing optimal research environments and leveraging state-of-the-art AI technologies. And LG AI Research developed its large-scale AI, EXAONE, a 300 billion parametric multimodal AI model, in 2021. EXAONE, which stands for 'Expert AI for Everyone,' is a multi-modal large-scale AI model that stands out from its peers due to its ability to process both language and visual data. With one of the world's largest learning data capacities, LG AI Research aims to engineer better business decisions through its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies and its continuous effort on fundamental AI research. For more information, visit
