South Korea’s largest AI model is launched: LG releases 750 billion parameter K-EXAONE 2

South Korea's largest AI model comes out: LG releases 750 billion parameters K-EXAONE 2.0, Apache open source to face the Chinese model LG AI Research Institute officially released the K-EXAONE 2.0 model on Hugging Face on July 31. This is the second generation product developed under the Sovereign Artificial Intelligence Foundation model project of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Information and Communications of South Korea. The new model uses a hybrid attention MoE architecture, with 750 billion total parameters and 37 billion activation parameters. The scale is more than 3 times that of the first generation. It is also the largest artificial intelligence basic model developed in South Korea so far. It is worth mentioning that K-EXAONE 2.0 is completely open source under the Apache 2.0 license, which is quite rare in the history of Korean AI development. Comprehensive performance improvement, head-on challenge to Chinese open source models. In vertical comparison, K-EXAONE 2.0 scored an average of 70.1 points in 24 benchmark tests, an increase of more than 10% from the 63.3 points of the first generation. The performance of the three major coding and agent coding benchmarks improved by about 30%. From a horizontal perspective, it is even more ambitious - it is better than GLM-5.1 in long context understanding, it also surpasses GLM-5.1 and Qwen3.5 in the ability to use agent tools, and it is at the same level as GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 Pro Max, Qwen3.5, etc. in the instruction execution evaluation. From the first generation to 2.0, LG AI Research Institute more than tripled the model parameter size in just one generation, and directly benchmarked China's leading open source models on a number of key indicators. While the global open source model competition triggered by Kimi K3 has not yet cooled down, South Korea has joined the fray in the name of sovereign AI, which means that a triangular competition pattern in the East Asian AI open source ecosystem is taking shape. via AI News (author: AI Base)