Lim Woo-hyung, co-head of LG AI Research, delivers a speech at a media event in Seoul on July 22, 2025, in this photo provided by the company. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) lab under South Korea’s LG Group, on Tuesday unveiled its vision to expand the EXAONE AI ecosystem, encompassing every level from foundation models to enterprise-level AI application services.
“We will secure global competitiveness based on our proprietary foundation model and apply it across various industrial sectors to achieve both versatility and expertise,” Lim Yoo-hyung, co-head of LG AI Research, said during a media event in Seoul. “We will also work with global partners to broaden our AI ecosystem.”
EXAONE is LG AI Research’s multimodal AI model based on a large language model (LLM), first introduced in 2021.
As part of its broader strategy to strengthen the EXAONE lineup, the lab recently launched EXAONE 4.0 and a specialized pathology model, EXAONE Path 2.0, alongside agentic AI solutions tailored for enterprise use.
At the event, LG AI Research also introduced EXAONE 4.0 VL, a vision-language model capable of understanding both text and images.
Three new enterprise-focused AI tools were also unveiled — ChatEXAONE, EXAONE Data Foundry and EXAONE On-Premise.
Lee Hong-lak, co-head of LG AI Research, delivers a speech at a media event in Seoul on July 22, 2025, in this photo provided by the company. (Yonhap)
ChatEXAONE is an employee-tailored agentic AI program, while EXAONE Data Foundry is a platform that produces high-quality AI data. EXAONE On-Premise is a full-stack solution that enables companies to build secure, in-house agentic AI systems.
“The evolution of agentic AI will soon lead to physical AI, a technology that will change the real world,” co-chief Lee Hong-lak said. “We will accelerate the development of physical AI technology that enables AI to recognize and judge reality and change the actual environment.”
Lee and Lim, recently promoted to co-lead LG AI Research following the appointment of former head Bae Kyung-hoon as South Korea’s new science minister, said they will focus not only on developing core AI technologies but also on applying them in real-world industries to create tangible value.
“We will do our best to advance EXAONE to a world-class level and expand it as a new growth driver by specializing it as an industrial AI tool,” said Lee, who also serves as chief scientist of AI at LG AI Research.
As part of its partnership expansion efforts, the lab plans to launch a business intelligence service with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in the third quarter of this year.
The program will use LSEG’s financial data along with unstructured sources, such as news articles and corporate disclosures, to predict investment asset returns and generate reports to support global investors in their decision-making.
“The service offers data on mid- and small-cap companies, which are typically harder to track,” said Lee Hwa-young, head of the AI business unit at LG AI Research. “Now, this is for LSEG customers, but we plan to make the service accessible via platforms such as Google or Yahoo in the future.”
(Yonhap)
