Overview

• LG AI Research has formalised its EXAONE platform as a full-stack AI ecosystem with new model variants including EXAONE Path 2.0 for pathology tasks and EXAONE 4.0 VL for vision-language understanding.
• The lab introduced three enterprise-grade solutions—ChatEXAONE for agentic assistance, EXAONE Data Foundry for high-quality training data pipelines and EXAONE On-Premise for secure in-house deployments.
• Co-leads Lim Woo-hyung and Lee Hong-lak outlined a roadmap toward physical AI capabilities that enable systems to perceive and act on real-world environments.
• A joint business intelligence service with the London Stock Exchange Group is slated for Q3, leveraging structured financial figures and unstructured sources to forecast asset returns and produce investor reports.
• These announcements follow the open-source release of EXAONE 4.0 on Hugging Face and its availability via the Friendly AI API, marking South Korea’s first hybrid AI model combining generative and reasoning capabilities.