LG unveils 750 bil.-parameter frontier AI model K-EXAONE 2.0

LG AI Research said Friday it has released K-EXAONE 2.0, Korea's largest artificial intelligence (AI) model with 750 billion parameters, to the open-source community Hugging Face. The model is intended for submission to the Korean government's National AI Foundation Model project, which aims to foster foundation models developed from scratch using domestic technology. The 2.0 model has more than tripled its parameter count from the 1.0 version that LG AI Research previously submitted for the project. LG AI Research also adopted the Apache 2.0 license for K-EXAONE 2.0, allowing unrestricted commercial use. The model scored an average of 70.1 across 24 benchmark evaluations, more than 10 percent higher than the 63.3 recorded by K-EXAONE 1.0. In particular, its average performance across three key coding and agentic coding benchmarks improved by 30 percent. In global and Korean long-context comprehension benchmarks (OpenAI-MRCR and Ko-LongBench), the model scored 94.4 and 89.6, respectively, outperforming Zhipu's GLM-5.1. In an agentic tool-use benchmark (Tau3-Bench Banking), the model score