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SKT, LG AI Research and Upstage advance to third evaluation of sovereign AI

SK Telecom, LG AI Research and Upstage have passed the second-stage evaluation of the government’s sovereign AI project and advanced to the next round, the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIPA said on Aug. 18. Motif Technologies, which joined through an additional call, did not advance. The ministry said it assessed teams using benchmark, expert and user scores, adding a public-use evaluation process.

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Alibaba releases open-source AI model that can run on MacBook

Alibaba has released an open-source multimodal AI model, Qwen3.8-27B, optimised for local use, including its weights under an Apache 2.0 licence. The company also plans to publish weights for its top model, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, letting developers choose between lightweight local models and frontier-grade agent tasks. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-27B can run on high-end MacBook Pro or Mac Studio systems and supports up to 1,000,000 tokens with YaRN.

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Local PC LLMs gain traction as tech firms step up competition

Competition among tech companies is intensifying over lightweight AI models as costs rise and more firms turn to open-source options for basic tasks. Local models that run on personal PCs are gaining prominence. DeepSeek released its V4 Flash coding model and reports say it shows strong performance at low API prices. Meta plans its Muse Glimmer laptop model family, highlighting on-device privacy. Nvidia introduced its open-source Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for PC GPUs.