Sovereign AI Competition Intensifies in South Korea
Sovereign AI Competition Intensifies: Need for Comprehensive AI Industry Competitiveness South Korea's AI industry is at a critical turning point. In alignment with the Lee Jae-myung administration's "AI Top 3" strategy, competition for developing domestic AI—so-called "sovereign AI"—is intensifying, with the entire IT industry focusing its capabilities on this goal. Led by SK Telecom, domestic companies' efforts toward AI technology independence are beginning to show tangible results. SK Telecom's A. Service Beta Launch SK Telecom has opened the curtain on sovereign AI competition by unveiling its next-generation artificial intelligence model-based "A. Service" for the first time. A.X 4.0 represents the latest version of SK Telecom's self-developed LLM A.X series, presenting new possibilities for "Korean-based large language models." This beta service goes b...