SK Telecom (SKT) has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) with steel manufacturer KG Steel and automotive parts maker KONEC to pilot its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model in their production facilities — marking the first deployment of the model in the manufacturing sector. SKT has been developing the model, called A.X K1, since earlier this year. The company began collecting process error reports, equipment manuals and operational log data from KG Steel and KONEC in April and has since completed a demo version of what it calls a "manufacturing-specialized AI agent" built on the model. A.X K1 is a large language model with 519 billion parameters — the numerical variables that determine a model's behavior. The company said the model is structured so that only about 33 billion parameters activate during each inference, allowing it to run efficiently in industrial environments while retaining the reasoning capacity of a much larger system. Parameters are a standard measure of a language model's scale and complexity. In the second half of the year, SKT and it
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