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SK
Telecom joins state-led project to advance Korean AI models
By
Chung Hye-lim, The Korea Herald - SK Telecom announced Thursday that it has
joined the Ministry of Science and ICT’s “AI Foundation Model” project,
furthering its strategy to build independent artificial intelligence optimized
for the Korean language.
Since
2018, SKT has focused on developing large language models tailored to Korean.
It launched KoBERT, Korea’s first deep-learning language model, in 2019,
followed by KoGPT2 and KoBART, contributing to the advancement of Korea’s AI
ecosystem. These models have supported both customer-facing services and
open-source collaboration.
The
company’s proprietary A.X series, developed entirely from scratch, has been
integrated into real-world services via its AI assistant platform “A.” A.X 1
focused on emotional conversation, A.X 2 introduced knowledge-based responses,
and A.X 3.0 improved reasoning speed and performance. These models have powered
features like call summarization and AI agents.
The
latest version, A.X 4.0, enhances reasoning with external knowledge and employs
continual pre-training, offering greater data security and improved
Korean-language processing. It is already being used in SKT’s commercial
services, including enhanced call summaries.
Notably,
SKT also unveiled the A.X 3.1, with both standard (34 billion parameters) and
lightweight (7 billion parameters) versions developed from scratch.
