LG AI Research releases EXAONE 3.0

EXAONE 3.0 released — a lightweight model open-sourced for research use; bilingual in Korean and English

Why it matters

The first open release of an in-house LLM by a major Korean company. But its research-only license also revealed the conservatism of the Korean approach to openness

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officiallg.co.krhttps://www.lg.co.kr/media/release/27972

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