AWS, Upstage and Ollama have agreed on a decision-model API, according to The New Stack, while OpenAI has not signed on. The report gives no further details on the API's specification, the terms of th…
OpenRouter listed seven decision-model routes from four publishers on September 28, 2026, priced from free to $0.05 per million input tokens with output free on every route, according to the OpenRoute…
JB Financial Group signed a memorandum of understanding with AI company Upstage on Monday to develop AI agents for banking and financial services using Upstage's proprietary large language model techn…
Artificial Analysis has been named the official global evaluation partner for South Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model project, known as Dokpamo, with its Intelligence Index accounting for 25 of 10…
South Korea's government launched the 'Independent AI Foundation Model' project in June 2025, a tournament-style initiative to develop a domestic frontier AI model, with five consortiums selected in A…
NC AI will showcase its physical AI technology at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh, operating a joint pavilion for the Korean Full-Stack AI Consortium alongside MegazoneCloud, Upstage, FuriosaAI, and Uracle. The e…
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…