( August 4, 2025, 05:35 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea has finalized a list of five consortia to carry out the World Best LLM project, aimed at developing world-class proprietary foundation AI models with strong government backing. The Ministry of Science and ICT announced that it had selected the five consortia — each led by Naver Cloud, Upstage, SK Telecom, NC AI, and LG AI Research, respectively — through document reviews and evaluation of presentations. The five “elite teams,” as the ministry described them, will now receive government support in the areas of GPUs, datasets and talent necessary to develop foundation models optimized for the South Korean context and capable of performing on par with the world’s leading models. The statement, in Korean, is attached....
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