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LG, SK, Upstage teams move to next round of South Korea sovereign AI project

By Choonsik Yoo ( January 16, 2026, 03:36 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea has shortlisted three consortia led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage AI to advance in a government-backed contest to develop sovereign foundation AI models. A Naver Cloud-led team was excluded at the last minute for failing independence requirements, prompting plans to select a fourth team through a separate process soon. The project has been promoted to avoid technical subordination to global leaders.South Korea has selected three consortia — led by LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage AI — out of five contenders as qualifying to advance to the second round of a government-initiated contest to become the final two developers of sovereign foundation artificial-intelligence models....

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