The two companies in July agreed to cooperate on AI, the cloud and IT to propel the country’s AI and cloud innovation.“The cooperation covers all core ICT technology based on AI,” said Microsoft Korea CEO Willy Cho during the conference, referring to information and communications technology.“it is a practical and definite partnership, which includes long-term research and development, joint engineering, capacity improvement and sales marketing.”Through the partnership, KT aims to ramp up the revenue of its AI transformation business, which includes AI, the cloud, consulting and information technology (IT) solutions, to 1.4 trillion won by 2029 from an estimated 269 billion won in 2025.
The two companies aim to develop the AI model based on GTP-4o, a multilingual, multimodal generative pre-trained transformer developed by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, and introduce specialized models for each industry based on the Phi-3.5, a small language model (SLM) of Microsoft in the first half of 2025.“Many companies claim they have Korean-style AIs but it is all talk,” said KT Chief Executive Kim Young-shub said at a press conference in Seoul to unveil details of its partnership with Microsoft.“The key to success is to quickly implement features that users want and recognize.
KT plans to seek partnerships with other companies.“We are not just relying on Microsoft,” Kim said.“We will work with Microsoft on what they are good at while leaving the door open to cooperate with other companies.”KT plans to hire about 1,000 specialists in ICT sectors including AI this year, although it is in difficulty in securing talent.“We failed to achieve the initial goal because we could not find talents,” Kim said.“We will continue to do our utmost to foster internal talents while seeking external specialists.”By Ji-Eun Jeongjeong@hankyung.com Jongwoo Cheon edited this article.
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