Episode Description:
Korea's sovereign AI foundation model race just narrowed to three finalists, while LG Electronics struck a major robotics data deal with Nvidia.
Upstage, SK Telecom, and LG AI Research advanced past the second evaluation round, while Motif Technologies was eliminated despite the strongest benchmark score. Six companies bid to build Korea's free national AI chatbot, LG partnered with Nvidia to gather about 12 years' worth of robot-training data by year-end, and nearly 2.96 million university students' records have been breached over the past five years.
Sources:
* Upstage, SK Telecom, LG AI Research advance in sovereign AI model race — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
* Telecom carriers and Kakao bid for Korea's free national AI chatbot project — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
* LG Electronics, Nvidia partner on 12 years of robot training data — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
* University data breaches near 3 million people over five years — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
* Former finance ministry officials join Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
* Google's Jeff Dean gives first post-retirement lecture at KAIST — Seoul Economic Daily, Aug 18, 2026
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Tags:
#KoreaAI #JobSeekers #Upstage #LGElectronics #Nvidia #StudentsAndGrads #KOSPI #AIPRISM #SeoulEconomicDaily #WANIFRA
