KT is making its management direction clearer more than 100 days after Park Yoon-young took office as chief executive, putting an “AX platform company” focused on supporting corporate customers’ AI transformation at the center. KT has announced investment plans for information security, IT innovation, next-generation networks, AI data centres and subsea cables, and is pitching a “token factory” business. It is also positioning its in-house AI model for enterprise use and widening cooperation with global and domestic AI firms.

OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring key talent from the enterprise software industry, including alumni of Salesforce, as AI competition spreads from products to the labour market. OpenAI has recruited executives and staff focused on enterprise sales and customer support, and is also hiring Palantir’s forward-deployed engineers. OpenAI said enterprise customers could account for up to 40 percent of its business and may rise to 50 percent by year-end.