# LG AI Research showcases real-world EXAONE AI applications at ICML 2026 > Source: > Published: 2026-07-08 06:27:02+00:00 LG AI Research is showcasing a series of industrial artificial intelligence (AI) applications powered by its large language model (LLM) EXAONE at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026, underscoring its push to use advanced AI for real-world commercial solutions. The conference, taking place at Coex in southeastern Seoul from Monday through Friday, is being held in Korea for the first time. It is widely regarded as one of the world's top three AI and machine learning research forums. For the event, the company highlights the real-world deployment of its LLM across materials science, finance and data infrastructure, including EXAONE Discovery, an AI platform designed to accelerate new materials and drug development. EXAONE Discovery, built on the company’s AI co-scientist technology, reads unstructured scientific papers, extracts molecular structures and proposes new candidate compounds in response to researchers’ queries. LG AI Research secured patents covering this end‑to‑end AI‑driven discovery workflow earlier this year and has since applied it in resea