Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
WRTN partners with LG AI Research to boost AI literacy
A chart showing EXAONE 4.0 benchmark assessments / Courtesy of LG AI Research
By Lee Gyu-lee
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup WRTN has signed a partnership with LG AI Research to adopt the large language model (LLM) EXAONE for a nationwide AI literacy project, forming a broader strategic cooperation to maximize the two companies’ synergies for the initiative.
National AI literacy is a government project that aims to strengthen the country’s AI competitiveness by making AI more accessible to the public through educational programs and by expanding the ecosystem for AI technology.
As part of these efforts, WRTN signed a strategic partnership with FuriosaAI last month to build high-performance and energy-efficient reasoning infrastructure, and the latest agreement with LG AI Research further reinforces this effort.
“Strengthening the nation’s AI competitiveness begins with empowering AI literacy of each citizen,” WRTN CEO Lee Se-young said in a press release. “We will continue working closely with a wide range of companies to ensure that AI delivers real value in people’s everyday lives, not just inside the lab.”
Under the agreement, the two companies will closely collaborate to apply their AI technologies and content in education, develop services and programs to improve AI literacy, and explore real-life applications and environments for AI adoption.
LG AI Research recently unveiled EXAONE 4.0 on July 15, scoring top marks among Korean AI models and ranking in the top 10 globally in an intelligence index benchmarking assessment by independent AI data firm Artificial Analysis.
“We are excited to apply EXAONE’s advanced technology to support nationwide AI literacy and to create user-centered innovation through our collaboration with WRTN, a leading AI service company in Korea,” Lim Woo-hyung, head of LG AI Research, said.
WRTN plans to maximize its synergies by leveraging LG AI Research’s EXAONE model in combination with FuriosaAI’s second-generation reasoning accelerator, RNGD, as the project takes off for a full-scale launch.