On this day: Apr 9

As LG's first open-weight vision-language model, it marks the point where Korea's open-weight route expanded beyond text

Made local inference, free of cloud lock-in and per-token billing, an official product line

Proposed a separate agent-to-agent layer and stated explicitly that it complements MCP

Exposed, in a standardized way, the gap between advertised and effective context length

The first large-scale tool ecosystem, folded after just one year; a sign that schema-based function calling outlasts a loose marketplace

An early case of a graph DB vendor adopting GraphRAG as a product category — the point at which an academic term entered the commercial stack