Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea)

All four teams' models were judged to meet the independence criteria; with a newly introduced public user evaluation included, the field narrowed to three

Confirms that the draft put out for legislative notice on May 21, 2026 actually took effect on the scheduled date. Kept as a separate entry so as not to mix up the legislative notice and the entry into force

This is the pre-announcement stage, not the final decree. It shows the draft form of the vulnerable-group categories and the public procurement provisions

Brought the project back to four teams after the first-round cut, all to be evaluated in August under the same development period, GPUs and data

The first eliminations in Korea's largest government-funded AI program

A state-led program to foster open-weight models