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NIPA hosts XTC Korea 2026; Omelette takes top prize

South Korea\'s National IT Industry Promotion Agency held the Extreme Tech Challenge Korea 2026 competition online on Aug. 12 in cooperation with Extreme Tech Challenge and the Global Digital Innovation Network. The event aims to support promising domestic AI startups in expanding overseas and attracting investment, focusing on companies contributing to the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Omelette won first place and the XTC Applied AI Excellence Award.

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Kakao language model Kanana-2 outperforms overseas models in safety assessment

Kakao has disclosed numerical safety verification results for its self-developed lightweight language models. The company said on Aug. 18 that two open-source models in its Kanana-2 series scored higher than major global models of similar size on assessments of harmfulness and bias, confirming top-tier safety. The evaluation used AssurAI, a Korea-designed safety benchmark, and compared the models with Google’s Gemma and Alibaba’s Qwen.

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KAIST hosts Discovery Loop\'s Jeff Dean, says human-AI collaboration delivers better results

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said it held a special lecture at the Seoul AI Hub on Aug. 13 with Jeff Dean of Discovery Loop, co-founder and CEO, co-hosted with a national AI research hub. Dean introduced AI’s development over the past 15 years and future research directions, saying more computing, data and larger models improved performance. He said human-AI collaboration can achieve better results than either alone.