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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
Nvidia to set up AI technology center in Seoul, begins hiring PhD-level staff
Nvidia has begun moving to establish an artificial intelligence technology center in South Korea, posting job openings for PhD-level researchers to work in Seoul. The hires will advise on foundation model development with local university and corporate researchers and support use of Nvidia training and optimisation frameworks. Jensen Huang said Korea is an optimal place for R&D investment and the company will secure a site once staffing is sufficient.
AI & Enterprise
Motif builds proprietary tools instead of Nvidia software for homegrown AI foundation model development
Motif Technologies, a developer of proprietary AI foundation models, is seeking differentiation by using its own platform rather than Nvidia software tools. It says using Nvidia’s general-purpose tools makes it hard to beat big tech firms with superior computing power. Chief Executive Jung-hwan Lim said Nvidia tools limit developer flexibility and can lock users into Nvidia’s ecosystem. Motif uses Nvidia GPUs and CUDA but replaces Nvidia’s model development tools with in-house software.
