LG and NVIDIA Join Forces to Develop Next-Generation AI Models... Expanding the 'K-Exaone' Ecosystem

LG AI Research and NVIDIA Executives Meet
Combining Exaone and Nemotron Open Ecosystems
Discussing Joint Development of Specialized Domain Models

Executives from LG AI Research and NVIDIA have agreed to strengthen their technological alliance to expand the 'K-Exaone' ecosystem.

According to LG on April 22, Woohyung Lim, Co-Research Director at LG AI Research, Jinshik Lee, Head of Exaone Lab, and other LG AI Research executives met with Brian Catanza, Executive Vice President of Applied Research at NVIDIA, Soyoung Jung, CEO of NVIDIA Korea, and others at the LG AI Research headquarters in Magok, Seoul, the previous afternoon. They discussed strategies for collaboration on the development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) models and joint establishment of the AI ecosystem.

On the afternoon of the 21st, Woohyung Lim, Co-Director of LG AI Research Institute, and Brian Catanza, Executive Vice President of NVIDIA Applied Research, discussed collaboration directions at the LG AI Research Institute headquarters in Magok, Seoul. LG

In particular, the two companies agreed to broaden their cooperation by combining LG's AI model 'Exaone' and NVIDIA's 'Nemotron' open ecosystem to jointly develop specialized models for professional domains.

LG AI Research and NVIDIA have maintained close technical cooperation throughout the development process, from Exaone 3.0 to K-Exaone and the recently released multimodal AI Exaone 4.5 earlier this month. During the development of Exaone, LG AI Research secured data training quality using the Nemotron open dataset, while NVIDIA supported the optimization and performance improvement of AI model training by providing its latest graphics processing units (GPUs), such as Blackwell, and AI development platforms like the Nemo Framework.

The collaboration between LG AI Research and NVIDIA has led to tangible results. According to the recently published 'AI Index Report' by the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Korea ranked third after the United States and China for the number of notable AI models, with five models. Of these, four were from LG AI Research's Exaone series: 'Exaone Deep', 'Exaone Path 2.0', 'Exaone 4.0', and 'K-Exaone'.

Executive Vice President Catanza stated, "NVIDIA has joined forces as a key partner to make Exaone the top AI model in Korea," adding, "The combination of LG's Exaone and NVIDIA's Nemotron will lead sovereign AI innovation and contribute to ecosystem expansion."

Woohyung Lim, Co-Research Director at LG AI Research, said, "NVIDIA has been a core technology partner throughout the development of Exaone. We will further expand the collaboration between LG and NVIDIA into a broader research and development ecosystem, aiming to deliver sovereign AI achievements that can be truly felt in industry settings."

Meanwhile, earlier this month, LG CEO Koo Kwang-mo visited Silicon Valley in the United States, where he met with Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, as well as Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, co-founders of Skilled AI, to exchange insights on accelerating the AI transformation (AX).

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