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Korea Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG AI Research Showcases 'EXAONE Ecosystem' at LG AI Talk Concert 2025
Pioneering AI Transformation from Bio to Business Intelligence SEOUL, South Korea, July 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LG AI Research hosted its "LG AI Talk Concert 2025" today at the LG Sciencepark Convergence Hall in Magok, Seoul, showcasing the evolution of its EXAONE ecosystem. The event highlighted the culmination of five years of AI development, featuring advanced AI models and services designed for real-world industrial applications. Woohyung Lim, Co-President of LG AI Research, outlined future plans, stating, "LG AI Research will secure global competitiveness based on our proprietary foundation model, go beyond AI model development to apply it in various industrial fields, thereby achieving both versatility and specialization, and create an AI ecosystem with global partners." Following this, Honglak Lee, Co-President of LG AI Research and CSAI (Chief Scientist of AI), mentioned the recently unveiled EXAONE. EXAONE 4.0 is leading hybrid AI model developed in Korea. EXAONE Path 2.0 is a precision medical AI model capable of reducing disease diagnosis time from two weeks to under one minute. A highlight of LG AI Talk Concert 2025 was the debut of EXAONE 4.0 VL (Vision Language), a sophisticated multimodal AI model adept at comprehensively understanding complex professional documents, images, and molecular structures. In performance comparisons, EXAONE 4.0 VL demonstrated superior performance compared to Meta's Llama 4 Scout model. Mr. Lee emphasized that EXAONE 4.0 VL will serve as the "eyes" of the EXAONE model. Following this, Jungkyu Choi, leader of the AI Agent Group at LG AI Research, successively unveiled EXAONE-based enterprise AI agents that have completed LG's internal validation: ChatEXAONE, EXAONE Data Foundry, and EXAONE On-Premise. Mr. Choi stated, "ChatEXAONE, the AI agent for LG employees, has obtained ISO certification for its ability to process even national core technology documents, demonstrating its potential for expansion into enterprise-exclusive services requiring high security." He further added, "Following the release of EXAONE 4.0, we have expanded the model's licensing scope to include educational purposes, preparing to enable students from elementary to university levels to freely utilize EXAONE." LG AI Research also introduced key technologies designed to accelerate the creation of specialized AI models for various professional domains. The newly unveiled 'EXAONE Data Foundry' is a platform that functions as an AI factory for producing high-quality data. EXAONE Data Foundry dramatically streamlines data generation, enabling a single individual to complete in one day what would typically require 60 experts working for three months. Validation projects conducted by LG AI Research with LG affiliates and national institutions have demonstrated a minimum 1,000-fold increase in data productivity and an average 20% improvement in data quality compared to existing methods. LG AI Research concluded its EXAONE ecosystem showcase by introducing 'EXAONE On-Premise', a solution built entirely with proprietary Korean technology, from AI semiconductors to models. EXAONE On-Premise is a full-stack solution that establishes enterprise agents in an independent environment, enabling companies to utilize EXAONE models without security concerns. LG AI Research also highlighted its key domestic and international partners within the EXAONE ecosystem, signaling the potential for diversifying its AI B2B business model. LG AI Talk Concert 2025 also featured a presentation by Professor Minkyung Baek of Seoul National University's Department of Life Sciences, who discussed the progress of "Next-Generation Protein Structure Prediction AI" for AI-driven drug discovery. Professor Baek detailed the development of an AI model that surpasses Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, potentially marking a new era in disease treatment. Arman Sahovic, APAC Head of Data Platform Solutions at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), introduced business intelligence services developed with EXAONE. Mr. Sahovic explained that LSEG and LG AI Research are collaborating to create a service that predicts investment asset return trends and generates reports based on LSEG's data, news, and disclosure information, thereby aiding investment decisions globally. LG AI Research also highlighted its pioneering and impactful journey since its establishment in December 2020, challenging uncharted territories to solve complex industrial problems and realize the value of AI: This year, LG AI Research continues its relentless pursuit of innovation, releasing EXAONE Deep in March, Korea's first reasoning AI model, followed by EXAONE 4.0 in July, Korea's first hybrid AI model combining general and reasoning models. The combined download count for LG AI Research's large language models (LLMs) – EXAONE 3.0, EXAONE 3.5, the reasoning AI model EXAONE Deep for agentic AI, and the hybrid AI model EXAONE 4.0 – have exceeded 5 million, a record high among Korean AI companies. Co-President Honglak Lee articulated LG AI Research's future ambition, stating, "The evolution of agentic AI directly leads to physical AI, a technology that transforms the real world. LG AI Research will accelerate the development of physical AI technology, enabling AI to perceive, judge, and alter actual environments." LG AI Research remains committed to continuous innovation, venturing into new domains to create unprecedented value and elevate Korea's AI competitiveness to a global standard. 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
Korea Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- Korea Herald
LG aims for global AI elite with next-gen Exaone platform
Following founder's Cabinet appointment, LG AI Research's new leaders set sights on global top-three status LG AI Research unveiled on Tuesday its evolving Exaone ecosystem, introducing a series of its latest and newly developed Exaone-based AI models and services co-developed with global partners. At the 'LG AI Talk Concert 2025' held at LG Sciencepark in Seoul, the institute showcased its lineup of AI innovations built on proprietary foundation models, including Exaone 4.0, Korea's first hybrid AI model combining reasoning and generative capabilities and Exaone Path 2.0, a precision medical AI system. To secure global competitiveness, the institute aims to expand its Exaone across all major industries, including biotechnology and finance. "The evolution of agentic AI directly leads to physical AI, a technology that transforms the real world. LG AI Research will accelerate the development of physical AI technology, enabling AI to perceive, judge, and alter actual environments,' Lee Hong-lak, co-president who was newly appointed Monday, said. While LG largely kept its Exaone models out of the public's reach as a B2B product, the company first unveiled its cutting-edge Exaone 4.0 model via API through the Friendly AI inference platform for companies and institutions, enabling real-world business integration. Another major unveiling was Exaone 4.0 VL, a multimodal vision-language model. It is capable of interpreting complex professional documents, images and molecular structures. LG AI Research said the model outperformed Meta's Llma 4 Scout in internal benchmarks, positioning it as a key component of the Exaone ecosystem – serving as its 'eyes' in real world applications. Also unveiled for the first time include the beta version of ChatExaone, an enterprise AI agent designed for secure internal use and previously limited to LG Group employees. The beta is currently available only to enterprise or business accounts. Exaone Data Foundry, a platform that streamlines the production of high-quality training data, and Exaone On-Premise, a full-stack enterprise AI solution built entirely with Korean hardware and software for deployment in secure and independent environments, were also unveiled for the first time during the event. Arman Sahovic, APAC Head of Data Platform Solutions at the London Stock Exchange Group, introduced business intelligence services developed with Exaone. Sahovic explained that LSEG and LG AI Research are collaborating to create a service that predicts investment asset return trends and generates reports based on LSEG's data, news and disclosure information, thereby aiding investment decisions globally. At the event, chief researchers at LG AI Research expressed their ambition to become one of the global top three players in the AI field. Their immediate goal is to lead in generative and agentic AI, with a longer-term vision to pioneer the era of physical AI, where systems can reason autonomously and take action to solve real-world problems. 'The race to secure AI technology is no longer just a corporate issue — it has expanded into a competition between nations. Without a self-sustaining ecosystem, dependency deepens, and we risk falling behind. Building our own ecosystem is essential,' said Kim Yoo-chul, head of Strategic Division at the institute. Lee Hwa-young, vice president leading AI Biz Dev and DX Group, also urged for government support in infrastructure. 'To build good AI, you need data, talent, technology and infrastructure. LG has everything except infrastructure,' Lee said. 'The government is now stepping in to build that infrastructure, and we are working hard to stay at the forefront of technology and become one of the global top three in AI.' The institute's two co-Presidents succeeding Bae Kyung-hoon following his appointment as Minister of Science and ICT, also made their first official appearance since their appointments. Lim Woo-hyung, one of the co-presidents, said he was proud of Bae's new role and vowed to continue leading the institute with dedication. 'Our goal is not just to advance AI technology, but to apply it directly in industrial settings and create real business value. We're actively exploring how to strengthen AI capabilities across LG affiliates and accelerate digital transformation,' Lim said. Co-head Lee Hong-lak said, 'I will work to elevate LG AI Research to global excellence. We will continue developing Exaone into a world-class technology, support its adoption across the group and help uncover new growth engines.'
