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LG Debuts EXAONE 4.0, South Korea’s First Hybrid AI Model

Available in two variants through open-source weights plus a commercial API to extend AI research into industry applications

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Overview

  • EXAONE 4.0 combines large-language fluency with structured reasoning to deliver benchmark-leading performance that surpasses rival open-weight models from the United States, China and France.
  • LG has released EXAONE 4.0 as open-source weights on Hugging Face alongside a commercial API powered by Friendly AI to broaden research and industrial use.
  • The model is offered in two configurations—a 32 billion-parameter expert version for complex tasks and a 1.2 billion-parameter on-device version for offline deployment in consumer electronics.
  • LG will host an AI Talk Concert and Partners Day at its Seoul Science Park on July 22 to showcase EXAONE 4.0 and announce forthcoming R&D initiatives.
  • EXAONE 4.0 builds on earlier EXAONE releases and positions LG in direct competition with Anthropic’s Claude, Alibaba’s Qwen and OpenAI’s GPT-5 in the global hybrid AI race.