South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has selected SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao to build its free national AI chatbot, 'AI for Everyone,' which will be available to all 52 million citizens, with a pu…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT released detailed scores from the second-phase evaluation of its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project, with SK Telecom ranking first overall at 70.6 points, …
SK Telecom Co. (SKT) has submitted an application for a government-led project to develop an AI foundation model specialized in cybersecurity, partnering with Upstage, nine security companies, Korea U…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has narrowed its state-backed project to develop a domestic AI foundation model to three teams led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom, and Upstage, eliminating sta…
LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage advanced to the next stage of South Korea's government-backed competition to develop a homegrown AI foundation model, while Motif Technologies was eliminated, th…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT cut Motif Technologies from its Sovereign AI Foundation Model project after the first-phase evaluation, advancing LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, and Up…
KT Corp., SK Telecom Co., and AI startup Upstage advanced to the next stage of South Korea's government-led 'AI for All' project, while Motif Technologies was eliminated, the Ministry of Science and I…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) eliminated Motif Technologies from its sovereign AI competition, 'Dokpamo', after an evaluation round from August 8 to 11, leaving LG AI Research, SK T…
A developer running llmlatency.dev measured time-to-first-token (TTFT) and time-to-first-byte (TTFB) for about 45 AI inference providers from four regions, finding that the two metrics often produce c…
At today's agent-focused talks, the consensus was that agent improvement now hinges on the trace—the record of an agent's actions—rather than larger models, with Grok 4.6 matching Claude Fable 5 on AA…
Upstage, a South Korean AI startup founded in 2020, released Solar Pro 4, a reasoning model that scored 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, triple the 14 scored by its predecessor Solar …
Open-weight model releases this week include Nanbeige 4.2 3B with looped depth sharing, poolside's Laguna S 2.1 (118B sparse MoE, 8B active, 1M-token context), Motif-3-Beta (314B-A13B sparse MoE with …
South Korea announced on July 22 that it will build a national AI chatbot, free for every citizen, powered by domestic technology to reduce reliance on ChatGPT and Claude among its 51 million citizens…
Upstage, a Korean AI company, released Solar Open 2, an open-weight large language model with 250 billion parameters that activates only 15 billion at a time using a mixture-of-experts structure, desi…
South Korean AI company Upstage released Solar Open 2, an open-weight foundation model optimized for agentic use, featuring a 250B-parameter MoE architecture with 15B active parameters per token and a…
Upstage, AXZ (operator of Daum), and FuriosaAI have partnered to power Daum's new AI Summary search feature using Upstage's Solar LLM on FuriosaAI's RNGD NPU, marking Korea's first commercially deploy…
Naver launched an AI Tab on June 26, 2026, replacing its search box with a conversational interface, while rival Daum introduced an AI Overview on July 1 using Upstage's Solar model. Naver plans to ad…
South Korean AI firm Upstage announced it will integrate its AI model, workplace tools, and web portal into a single platform, betting on a home-grown stack to compete without relying on US or Chinese…
Upstage CEO Sung Kim told reporters in Seoul that a US directive restricting foreign access to Anthropic's advanced AI models underscores the need for South Korea to develop sovereign AI capabilities.…
Upstage CEO Sung Kim cited Anthropic's compliance with US export controls by disabling its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models worldwide as evidence that countries must develop sovereign AI capabilities. Kim …