KT will launch AI services resembling Korean artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots within the second quarter of this yr.
Kim Young -seop, CEO of KT, announced on the fifth that he’ll unveil the Korean -style AI service in collaboration with Microsoft (MS) on the MWC25 press conference in Barcelona, Spain.
KT and Microsoft signed an AI partnership in June last yr, after which collaborated in September to construct an AI agent with the Korean Chat GPT. ▲ Development of Korean AI solutions ▲ providing Korean Sovereign Cloud Solutions ▲ Establishment of AX Corporations ▲ strengthening AI R & D capability of the domestic technology ecosystem ▲ KT’s AICT leap.
Particularly, the AI service development plan has been laid out in detail. Through MS ‘Azure Open AI Service’, he explained that ‘GPT-4O’ can be developed to develop a customized version of ‘GPT-4O’. As well as, Microsoft’s representative compact language model (SLM) ‘PHI’ product line can be used to explore the event of AI models optimized in Korea.
An official of KT said, “The Korean AI service, which is scheduled to be released within the second quarter, relies on collaboration with MS,” he said.
“Particularly, we’ve got worked hard to build up related data resembling Korean knowledge and customary sense,” he said. “It is going to be the difference between KT’s AI service.” The goal is to expand the bottom of AI within the domestic market by applying data, laws, regulations, culture, and languages which are optimized, research and development processes which are protected and reliable in the general research and development process.
Last yr, the Korean AI model can be developed based on KT’s cultural and industrial data and can be applied to chatbots and B2B solutions in the long run. Through this, the strategy is to supply customized AI services which are most fitted for the needs of domestic customers and firms.
As well as, the corporate announced a specialized model by industry resembling public-finance based on SLM ‘Pi 3.5’. In other words, not only the AI service but in addition the Korean AI model is interpreted as a protracted time.
Meanwhile, KT plans to commercialize the cloud service ‘KT SPC’, which comply with domestic laws and regulations, to the in -house system. In the primary quarter, the corporate plans to ascertain a ‘AX Delivery Specialist Center’, which consists of 300 people, including KT’s talent and MS global experts, and implement the AX projects for firms.
The corporate plans to strengthen its partnership with Microsoft and expand the collaboration ecosystem with the surface based on a three way partnership that mixes AI and KT SPC. In the primary quarter, Microsoft and AX Strategic Funds can be operated to find AX solutions and services of startups and small and medium -sized firms by industry.
Kim Young -seop, CEO of KT, said, “Korean AI is a protected AI service that comprehensively understands Korean spirit, ways, and knowledge, and incorporates Korean society, history, and national views, and meets the domestic system and regulation.” “We are going to deal with developing the AI model by utilizing the source model.”
By Jang Se -min, reporter semim99@aitimes.com
