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Korea Herald
21-04-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG Display unveils in-house AI assistant to up productivity
LG Display said Monday it has become the first company in the display industry to internally develop and deploy an artificial intelligence assistant service tailored to enhance employee productivity. The AI assistant, designed to optimize individual workflow, provides features such as real-time translation during video conferences and automated meeting transcription, enabling employees to perform tasks more efficiently. In the first half of the year, the display maker plans to expand the AI assistant's capabilities to include email summarization and natural language-based data analysis. In the second half, the company aims to roll out advanced functions that will assist in drafting business presentation materials such as PowerPoint documents, further enhancing the tool's utility. According to LG Display, early implementation of the service has resulted in a roughly 10 percent increase in daily productivity. The company estimates that employees can manage their time more efficiently -- saving about 50 minutes within a standard 8-hour workday -- allowing them to focus on higher-value tasks. LG Display said it aims to increase overall work productivity by more than 30 percent within the next three years through continued upgrades and wider adoption of the AI assistant. The AI assistant has been integrated as a plug-in application into the company's existing internal intranet platform, Let's, allowing for seamless use without the need for infrastructure changes. LG Display has internalized a large language model, which serves as the brain of the AI, to fundamentally block the leakage of external information through its AI assistant service and to enhance security stability. The LLM is based on Exaone 3.5, developed in-house by LG AI Research, LG Group's AI think tank, and the development of the AI application was carried out in collaboration with the group's IT solutions unit LG CNS. 'With the introduction of a personal AI assistant, we've been able to significantly boost individual productivity by minimizing routine tasks,' said Lee Byung-seung, head of DX group at LG Display. 'We will continue to strengthen our AI transformation capabilities to deliver differentiated value to customers,' he added.
Korea Herald
21-04-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG Display unveils in-house AI assistant to elevate productivity
LG Display said Monday it has become the first company in the display industry to internally develop and deploy an artificial intelligence assistant service tailored to enhance employee productivity. The AI assistant, designed to optimize individual workflow, provides features such as real-time translation during video conferences and automated meeting transcription, enabling employees to perform tasks more efficiently. In the first half of the year, the display maker plans to expand the AI assistant's capabilities to include email summarization and natural language-based data analysis. In the second half, the company aims to roll out advanced functions that will assist in drafting business presentation materials such as PowerPoint documents, further enhancing the tool's utility. According to LG Display, early implementation of the service has resulted in a roughly 10 percent increase in daily productivity. The company estimates that employees can manage their time more efficiently -- saving about 50 minutes within a standard 8-hour workday -- allowing them to focus on higher-value tasks. LG Display said it aims to increase overall work productivity by more than 30 percent within the next three years through continued upgrades and wider adoption of the AI assistant. The AI assistant has been integrated as a plug-in application into the company's existing internal intranet platform, Let's, allowing for seamless use without the need for infrastructure changes. LG Display has internalized a large language model, which serves as the brain of the AI, to fundamentally block the leakage of external information through its AI assistant service and to enhance security stability. The LLM is based on Exaone 3.5, developed in-house by LG AI Research, LG Group's AI think tank, and the development of the AI application was carried out in collaboration with the group's IT solutions unit LG CNS. 'With the introduction of a personal AI assistant, we've been able to significantly boost individual productivity by minimizing routine tasks,' said Lee Byung-seung, head of DX group at LG Display. 'We will continue to strengthen our AI transformation capabilities to deliver differentiated value to customers,' he added.
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
Korea Herald
18-03-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG to take on OpenAI, DeepSeek with Korea's first reasoning AI model
LG AI Research has unveiled the country's first reasoning artificial intelligence model, Exaone Deep with top-tier performance to compete head-on with industry-leading players including OpenAI and DeepSeek, Tuesday. The research institute, affiliated with Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate LG, introduced the new foundation model at this year's Nvidia GTC, an AI conference held in Silicon Valley. The company claimed the model outperforms leading US and Chinese AI models with fewer parameters and graphic processing units. According to LG, Exaone Deep 32B features 32 billion parameters, which is only 5 percent of the parameters of China's DeepSeek R1 -- runs on 671 billion parameters -- but demonstrates exceptional performance, especially in solving complex mathematical and scientific problems. A parameter is a numeric value that helps AI models process data and make decisions. "Exaone Deep shows excellence in high-difficulty benchmarks, outperforming significantly larger models. In terms of the number of GPUs each model uses, Exaone Deep 32B runs on only one unit of Nvidia's H100 chip, while DeepSeek operates on 16 of those expensive chips," an LG AI research official explained, highlighting the learning efficiency and cost-effectiveness. "Our reasoning AI model shows how Korea's AI technology is globally competitive, given how only a few players -- mainly in the US and China -- have developed in-house reasoning AI." Exaone Deep 32B model demonstrated competitive superiority in science and coding domains, scoring higher than its rivals. The model achieved 94.5 points in the 2025 Korean College Scholastic Ability Test mathematics section when OpenAI o1-mini scored 84.4 points and DeepSeek R1, 88.8 points, in the data provided by the research center. On the American Invitational Mathematics Examination 2025, Exaone Deep 32B achieved performance on par with the DeepSeek R1, with both models scoring 80 points. The 32B model also achieved a 66.1 score on the Graduate-level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark that evaluates PhD-level problem-solving abilities in physics, chemistry and biology. In LiveCodeBench, the benchmark for evaluating coding capabilities, it scored 59.5 points, outperforming other reasoning AI models of similar size, LG said. "Humans think, reason and produce results. For AI agents and robots to evolve into what humans truly want and satisfy demands to the level we want, inference capability is the enabler," an LG official said. Immediately after its release, the Exaone Deep 32B model was listed on Epoch AI's Notable AI Models, marking another achievement following Exaone 3.5 and making the brand the only Korean model to be listed in the past two years, the company said. In the unveiling, LG also introduced the lightweight model Deep 7.8B and on-device model 2.4B, which feature fewer parameters but prove their practical utility. Being 24 percent the size of the 32B model, the lightweight model maintains 95 percent of its performance, while the on-device model achieved 86 percent of the big model's performance at just 7.5 percent the size, the company said. Being Korea's first reasoning AI foundation model, Exaone Deep also delivers exceptional performance in general language understanding, securing the highest score of 83 in the Massive Multitask Language Understanding benchmark, an LG official said, noting how the lightweight 7.8B model outperformed the OpenAI o1-mini in the US. "The core of LG's AI technology is reducing model size while maintaining performance.' LG AI Research released all Exaone Deep models as open-source, allowing researchers, developers and other users to access and build on them. Meanwhile, Koo Kwang-mo, CEO of LG Corp., 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." "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," Koo said.
Korea Herald
10-02-2025
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG's Exaone AI model matches DeepSeek in cost efficiency: Epoch AI
LG AI Research's hyperscale artificial intelligence multimodal model has been recognized as notable AI by a leading US research institution, especially receiving high marks for cost efficiency, similar to China's DeepSeek. According to a recent report released by Epoch AI, LG's Exaone 3.5 32B model, unveiled in December 2023, has been included in its "notable AI category." Epoch AI, composed of scientists and AI experts, evaluates and selects AI models based on performance, usage frequency and other criteria. This marks the first time in two years that a Korean company's AI model has been recognized in this category. LG AI Research head Bae Kyung-hoon said at a conference hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT that the model was developed with an investment of about 7 billion won ($4.8 million). This amount is lower than the estimated $6 million that DeepSeek reportedly spent on developing its V3 model. LG's AI research team has optimized the model for practical industrial applications. The initial Exaone 1.0, launched in late 2021, featured 300 billion parameters, but the latest 3.5 model has been scaled down to 32 billion parameters, improving efficiency and reducing costs. The model is currently deployed in LG Group's generative AI service, ChatExaone, and its employees use it. In addition to LG, Korean AI models from Naver and Samsung Electronics, as well as Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Yonsei University and Korea University, have been included in Epoch AI's latest list of notable AI models.
