Choi Tae-won (최태원), chairman of SK Group, said scaling solutions to social problems requires a compensation system based on results, not budgets and publicity. Speaking in Seoul at the first session of the Ecosystem Leadership Exchange, he also stressed the importance of accurately measuring social value and said advances in AI can help address the high transaction costs of precise measurement. He called for performance-based incentives and promoted the social performance incentive model.

Open-source AI models are moving from challengers to the mainstream in the global AI industry. Chinese companies such as DeepSeek, Z.ai and Moonshot AI are releasing open-weight models, and U.S. firms are also joining the trend, putting pressure on closed-model leaders OpenAI and Anthropic. Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model, while U.S. startup Thinking Machines Lab introduced its first model as open-weight. The shift is also influencing stock markets and corporate strategies.