The competitive landscape among domestic telecommunications and artificial intelligence corporations has emerged over the Everyone's AI project, which will provide free AI chatbots and public AI agents to the public.
According to the industry on the 18th, consortia formed by Kakao, SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus, among others, took part in the bid that closed at 5 p.m. that day. Everyone's AI is a project to build a universal AI service that anyone can use without expense or usage limits. Developing AI agents that support public tasks is also a key goal.
Operators must use domestic models that meet the independent AI foundation model project criteria for at least 50% and apply other domestic corporations' models for at least 30%. A key feature is combining multiple domestic models in the service rather than relying on a single model.
KT teamed up with Upstage and Motif Technologies, which have experience in phases 1 and 2 evaluations of the independent AI foundation model project. The strategy is to boost model competitiveness by adding Upstage's "Solar" and Motif Technologies' "Motif" to its own model "Mit:eum."
SK Telecom will collaborate around "A.X K2," which passed the phase 2 evaluation, working with SK Group affiliate AI corporations such as Elice, an AI full-stack company, and Liner, an AI search and agent company.
LG Uplus will build a "One LG" system with LG AI Research to pool group capabilities from model development to service and platform operations. Kakao joined the bid highlighting everyday life–focused AI services but did not disclose a specific list of partners.
ESTsoft formed a consortium with Megazone, WISEnut, Polaris Office and Suresoft Technologies. The plan is to secure service stability by combining the capabilities of system, infrastructure and security corporations with the experience built through "ALYac" and the AI human business.
Meanwhile, Naver and Naver Cloud, which ranked near the top in the independent AI foundation model project evaluation, did not enter this competition. Naver Cloud said the decision was to focus resources on other ongoing projects.
The Ministry of Science and ICT will select two to three operators this month after document and presentation evaluations. The selected consortia will begin beta service in September and push for an official launch within the year.