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LG AI Research

LG AI Research combines an active open-model program with direct pathways into a large industrial and consumer conglomerate.

HQ

Seoul, South Korea

Founded

2020

Region

Asia-Pacific

Capital & commercial trajectory

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Current snapshot

Lifecycle position

Research

Early research & prototypes

Preview

Limited access & evaluation

Growth

Public access & scaling

Deployment

Production & at scale

Current position

Founded

2020

Watch cadence

Weekdays

Last verified

2026-07-22

Focus

Open-weight language and vision-language foundation models for industry and research

Latest move

Released the open-weight EXAONE 4.5 vision-language model in April 2026.

Category and subcategory context

Frontier LabsMedia ModelsOpen sourceResearch

Competitive context

NAVERSamsungQwen / Alibaba Cloud

Recent models

EXAONE 4.5EXAONE Deep

Products

EXAONEChatEXAONE

Open weights

Yes

API access

No

Watch level

Weekdays

Signals

Open weightsAsiaEnterprise AI

Infrastructure & distribution

Where LG AI Research sits in the AI stack

Model / product operator
01

Model layer

2 tracked model families

02

Access layer

Self-hostable weights

03

Market layer

Open Weight Labs

Public product surface

EXAONEChatEXAONE

Stack signals

Open sourceResearchOpen weightsAsiaEnterprise AI

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