Korea to launch $3.5 bil. frontier AI project next year
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Korea to launch $3.5 bil. frontier AI project next year
Korea will launch a state-backed project next year to develop a frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of competing with leading Chinese open-source models, with the government planning to make 4.7 trillion won ($3.48 billion) of equity investment in what could be a special purpose company involving the country’s top AI model developers. During a press conference Friday, Second Vice Minister of Science and ICT Ryu Je-myung also said…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwon Ha-young = The government is halting the independent AI Foundation Model (Dokpamo) development project and instead developing a top-tier global AI model...
The Ministry of Science and ICT is continuing the existing "Independent AI Foundation Model" (Dokpamo) project as originally planned, while separately launching the "Frontier AI" project to develop world-class models. Concerns have been raised that the existing Dokpamo project might be effectively halted due to the launch of the new top-tier model development initiative.
[Digital Daily Reporter Oh Byung-hoon] “From the very beginning, Dokpamo was a game played with a ‘moving target.’ I have consistently stated that goals and evaluation methods would need to be adjusted at every stage.” Ryu Je-myung, Second Vice Minister of Science and ICT, explained the necessity of restructuring the Independent AI Foundation Model (Dokpamo) project in this way during a press conference with the press corps held at the National…
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