KT officially expressed its intention to participate as the leading company in a consortium for the 'Independent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation Model Development Project' organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 23rd. A total of 18 corporations and institutions are participating in this project, including KT, Saltlux, the Korean National Police Agency, Korea University Medical Center, Seoul National University, and Mathpresso. The project also collaborates with the Korea Coast Guard, the Constitutional Court, leading domestic law firms (Yulchon, Sejong), along with domestic AI semiconductor companies Rebellions, Mobilint, and Hyperexcel.
This project includes renowned scholars from both domestic and international backgrounds as advisors, such as Professor Wiguyeon of Harvard University, an authority in the AI semiconductor field, and Professor Lee Su-in of Washington University, an expert in 'Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)'. Additionally, Tomorrow Robotics, which recently participated in the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's 'K-Humanoid' alliance to develop a general-purpose robot foundation model, is also included in the project. Crowdworks will be responsible for building high-quality learning data.
The Korean National Police Agency plans to utilize accumulated crime data, images, onsite videos, and other security data for model training, with the intention of converting this into a prevention-focused security system.
KT noted, 'We will form an AI one team composed of the best experts in each field to lead Korea's national representative AI technology and drive the popularization and ecosystem expansion of AI in our country.'
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, 15 consortiums submitted proposals for this project competition, with leading companies including Naver Cloud, Lunit, Motif Technologies, BioNexus, Sionic AI, Upstage, SK Telecom, NC AI, LG AI Research Institute, JunctionMED, Kakao, KT, Konan Technology, Pion Corporation, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) participating as leading companies.