LG AI Research Launches EXAONE 4.0, Pioneering Hybrid AI in South Korea (Image supported by ChatGPT)
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence (AI) lab under South Korea’s LG Group, on Tuesday unveiled EXAONE 4.0, the country’s first hybrid AI model.
The hybrid AI model delivers world-class performance by combining the strengths of large language models (LLMs) and reasoning AI, the company said in a press release.
This marks LG’s second major AI milestone this year, following the launch of South Korea’s first reasoning AI model, EXAONE Deep, in March.
“We will continue our R&D efforts to establish EXAONE as Korea’s leading frontier AI model and to demonstrate its competitiveness in the global market,” Lee Jin-sik, head of the EXAONE Lab at LG AI Research, said.
In benchmark performance tests, EXAONE 4.0 outperformed leading open-weight models from the United States, China and France, the company said.
Globally, only a handful of companies have introduced similar hybrid AI models. U.S.-based Anthropic and China’s Alibaba have released their Claude and Qwen models, respectively, while U.S. AI firm OpenAI has said it is developing GPT-5 as a hybrid model.
LG has also released EXAONE 4.0 as an open-weight model on Hugging Face, the global open-source AI platform, for research and educational purposes.
An open-weight model refers to an AI model whose learned parameters, or weights, are publicly released, allowing others to use and adapt the model even though its training data and architecture may remain proprietary.
In partnership with Friendly AI, an official model distributor on Hugging Face, LG has also launched a commercial application programming interface (API) service for EXAONE 4.0. The company expects the API release to accelerate AI adoption across industries.
Meanwhile, LG plans to host an AI-themed talk concert at LG Science Park in Seoul on July 22, where it will showcase EXAONE 4.0, highlight related AI technologies and announce future research projects.
(Yonhap)
