{"id":2049,"date":"2025-08-04T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:05:13","slug":"skt-consortium-selected-for-msit-project-aiming-to-pioneer-koreas-leading-proprietary-ai-foundation-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/2049","title":{"rendered":"SKT Consortium Selected for MSIT Project, Aiming to Pioneer Korea\u2019s Leading Proprietary AI Foundation Model"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Core technological research with leading experts from SNU, KAIST and University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Realizing high-performance, efficient AI through large-scale in-house GPU resources and NPU optimization<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the SKT Consortium has been selected as a core team for the \u2018Proprietary AI Foundation Model\u2019 project led by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).<\/p>\n

As part of this initiative, the SKT Consortium aims to develop a full-stack artificial intelligence (AI) platform based on proprietary technologies spanning semiconductors, models, data and services. A significant aspect of this effort will include open-sourcing these capabilities to empower domestic companies and accelerate Korea\u2019s AI innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n

The SKT consortium brings together industry leaders and research institutions across Korea to establish a solid foundation for proprietary AI advancement. Kim Taeyoon, Head of the Foundation Model Office at SK Telecom, will conduct core research on AI technologies. The main participating companies and research institutions include:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Krafton:<\/strong> Korea\u2019s largest listed game company, known for iconic game franchises.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 42dot:<\/strong> A leader in mobility AI solutions aimed at advancing autonomous technologies.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Rebellions:<\/strong> A top-tier manufacturer of AI inference chips (neural processing units, or NPUs).
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Liner:<\/strong> A specialist in AI-driven knowledge and search agent technologies.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Selectstar:<\/strong> A provider of data reliability technologies critical to AI model development.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Seoul National University (SNU):<\/strong> Professor Kim Gunhee, Professor Yoon Sungroh, Professor Hwang Seungwon, Professor Do Jaeyoung
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u2022 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST):<\/strong> Professor Lee Kimin<\/p>\n

In addition, Professor Lee Kangwook and Professor Dimitris Papailiopoulos from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have joined as key researchers in this project, further strengthening the consortium\u2019s AI research capabilities.<\/p>\n

The SKT Consortium has demonstrated its expertise in the AI field, with over 800 research papers, 736 patents, and 270 open-source projects.<\/p>\n

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Image: Full-stack AI concept map of SKT Consortium<\/p>\n

SK Telecom is embarking on the development of next-generation large-scale AI models through the Proprietary AI Foundation Model project. The company plans to incorporate \u2018omnimodal\u2019 technology, enabling the integrated processing of not only text, but also images, speech and video data.<\/p>\n

Since 2018, SK Telecom has been developing its own large language model (LLM), A.X. This year, the company has sequentially released two versions (standard and light) of the A.X 4.0 based on large-scale continual pre-training (CPT), as well as two versions (standard and light) of the A.X 3.1 built entirely from scratch. These models deliver performance on par with GPT4o and demonstrate world-class ability in understanding Korean context.<\/p>\n

To date, SK Telecom has trained A.X models on its own TITAN supercomputer. Moving forward, the SKT Consortium will provide large-scale computing resources independently to conduct advanced research and development. In addition, consortium member Rebellions will leverage its domestically developed NPUs to optimize high-performance, energy-efficient AI services.<\/p>\n

The consortium\u2019s ultimate objective is to make AI agents accessible and convenient for all Koreans, while leading AI innovation across key industries such as office work, manufacturing, automotive, gaming and robotics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith our proven technological capabilities and operational expertise, we will deliver the highest-quality Korean-style proprietary AI foundation model to empower AI for daily life in Korea,\u201d said Kim Jiwon, Head of AI Model Lab at SK Telecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2022 Core technological research with leading experts from SNU, KAIST and University of Wisconsin-Madison \u2022 Realizing high-performance, efficient AI through large-scale in-house GPU resources and NPU optimization SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today announced that the SKT Consortium has been selected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[390,472,473],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-gpu","tag-msit","tag-npu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}