Global AI companies are accelerating efforts to target South Korea’s sovereign AI market, focused on AI infrastructure controllable by governments and enterprises. Palantir held a second pop-up event in Korea, while Mistral began hiring in Seoul and Cohere outlined plans to set up local entities and double Asia-Pacific staff by year-end. The article also rounds up moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Salesforce and others, including models, acquisitions, investments and cloud and AI agent infrastructure tools.

IT market research firm Gartner unveiled 10 strategic technology trends for 2027, naming large quantitative models, voice reasoning models, world models, AI context platforms and AI coding agent harnesses. It also cited AI agent identity, autonomous exposure remediation, sovereign tech, disposable applications and wetware as a service. Gartner described how these technologies could support decision-making, automate voice interactions, strengthen security and reshape software lifecycles.