Global Big Tech companies such as Microsoft Corp., Meta and Google rushed to develop lightweight AI models, which grew more popular due to better performances despite fewer parameters than those of other LLMs.“LG does not need to depend on Nvidia’s AI semiconductor as it succeeded in developing a lightweight model,” said an electronics industry source in Seoul.“The more AI engineers and students use the open-sourced Exaone 3.0, the wider LG’s AI-related businesses will be.”GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPSThe group plans to introduce the latest AI LLM to the products and services of its affiliates such as the world’s leading home appliance maker LG Electronics Inc.and the conglomerate’s mobile carrier LG Uplus Corp.
The group revealed the first edition of Exaone in December 2021.“Its performance is as strong as other open-sourced AI models such as Meta’s Llama and Google’s Gemma,” said an LG group official.“We succeeded in improving performance and reducing its size to three-hundredths compared to the initial model by focusing on lightweight and optimization technology.”Exaone 3.0 has 7.8 billion parameters for learning on almost 8 trillion tokens.
LG Group is actively in talks for global partnerships, sources said.“We aim to vitalize the AI research ecosystem and improve the national AI competitiveness by unveiling the country’s first open-sourced homegrown AI model,” said LG AI Research President Bae Kyunghoon.
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