LG Building a Hyper-Large AI Ecosystem... "Creating a Platform Centered on ExaOne"

[Asia Economy Reporter Jeong Hyunjin] Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman of LG, is building a super-large AI alliance infrastructure as LG AI Research Institute, which is nurturing future growth engines, has recently formed strategic partnerships with financial, distribution, and metaverse sectors. By collaborating with most industries, LG has taken steps to create a platform centered on its super-large AI, 'Exaone,' aiming to establish a new ecosystem like Android or iOS in the super-large AI domain.

According to LG on the 26th, LG AI Research Institute recently signed strategic partnerships with three companies: Woori Bank, GS Retail, and VA Corporation. This comes just a week after unveiling the super-large AI Exaone on the 14th, laying the foundation for AI development applicable across various industrial fields.

Super-large AI is an AI that learns, thinks, and makes judgments independently based on large-scale computing infrastructure modeled after the human brain structure. Exaone, the super-large AI revealed by LG AI Research Institute, has learned from 600 billion corpora?the largest in the world?and over 250 million high-resolution images combined with text. It has 300 billion parameters (synapse-like elements that transmit information between neurons in the brain), the largest scale in Korea, which estimates AI computational power.

Through a business agreement with Woori Bank, LG AI Research Institute plans to enable the development of future-oriented branch services and next-generation financial services, including an 'AI Banker' that learns financial language to provide specialized services in the financial sector. With GS Retail, they plan to innovate business models by developing new-concept AI capable of customer-tailored responses in the e-commerce market, AI that recommends recipes based on ingredients, and AI active in pet care and quick commerce (fast delivery) sectors.

Additionally, with VA Corporation, they will jointly develop 'AI Human' with great future scalability, not only for the metaverse but also for kiosks and customer service. Existing AI Humans could only mimic human voices or engage in limited communication based on learned data. VA Corporation plans to use Exaone to create a true AI Human by combining a conversational language model that can read emotions embedded in language with a vision model that generates facial expressions and gestures.

LG AI Research Institute emphasized that forming corporate alliances to build an ecosystem is as important as large-scale computing infrastructure for securing a large amount of high-quality data for AI learning. They evaluated that signing business agreements while domestic and international companies are still researching language models and multimodal AI that converts language into images is meaningful as it marks the start of developing AI applicable across actual industrial fields.

An official from LG AI Research Institute said, "We plan to modularize and create specialized AI for each field that can be used like software using Exaone's training data," adding, "Since the unveiling, we have received love calls from companies in various fields such as medical care, education, and design. If global companies collaborate to build a platform centered on Exaone, we expect a new ecosystem like the super-large AI version of Android (Google) or iOS (Apple) to emerge domestically as well."

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