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Korea closes call for cybersecurity AI foundation model project; SKT, Naver Cloud in two-horse race

South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT said on Aug. 26 that two consortia led by SK Telecom and Naver Cloud submitted proposals for a project to develop a cybersecurity-specialised AI foundation model. The SKT consortium proposed developing a broad set of models and verifying agentic security services based on the domestic cyber threat environment. The Naver Cloud consortium proposed developing a model to internalise national cybersecurity capabilities. The ministry plans to announce the selected team in early September.

Telecommunications & Media

SKT steps up scale-up of proprietary AI to multimodal and agents

SK Telecom has passed a second-stage evaluation of the government’s project for a proprietary AI foundation model. The assessment reflected industrial applicability and impact on South Korea’s AI ecosystem. SKT plans to expand its technology scope in the next evaluation to models with up to trillion-level parameters and to multimodal and AI agent areas. It has developed the A.X K1 and expanded to A.X K2, and it is building derived vision and speech models and applying them in manufacturing and defence.

AI & Enterprise

Six bidders including SKT, KT and Kakao join Korea\'s AI-for-all tender, selection due end-August

Six companies or consortia, including SK Telecom, Kakao and KT, have entered a tender for the South Korean government\'s AI public service project dubbed AI for All. The Ministry of Science and ICT said on Aug. 18 it received six proposals. Lead organisations are SKT, MKD, ESTsoft, Xenon, Kakao and KT. The ministry plans to select operators by end-August and launch the service within the year after an agreement and beta service.