LG Joins Security-Specialized AI Development as SKT and Naver Also Consider Participation
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The government is pushing ahead with a project to develop AI foundation models for the cybersecurity sector.
LG CNS is preparing to participate by forming a consortium with LG AI Research and LG U+.
The consortium aims to create a cybersecurity-specialized model by applying security dataset training to EXAONE.
As the government pushes ahead with a project to develop AI foundation models for the cybersecurity sector, LG CNS is preparing to participate by forming a consortium with LG affiliates. According to the industry on the 13th, LG CNS is preparing to join the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA)-led "Specialized Artificial Intelligence Foundation Model Development (Cybersecurity Sector) Project."
The LG consortium will consist of LG CNS, LG AI Research, and LG U+. Any additional consortium members beyond LG affiliates have not been disclosed.
The consortium plans to apply security dataset training to EXAONE, the large-scale AI model developed by LG AI Research. The goal is to create a cybersecurity-specialized model.
It is also known that SKT and Naver Cloud are considering participating in the project. As a result, competition around the government-led project to develop a cybersecurity-specialized AI foundation model is heating up.
LG consortium's participation in the project has been confirmed. SKT and Naver Cloud are discussing consortium formation, and SKT has said it is reviewing whether to participate in the project, while Naver Cloud has also said it is reviewing whether to participate.
Recent models such as Anthropic's "Mythos 5" and OpenAI's "GPT-5.6 Cyber" have highlighted major vulnerability-detection results. As a result, the cybersecurity landscape has shifted with the emergence of the latest models, and there have also been cases in which the U.S. government imposed export controls because of the risks posed by certain models, with the issue expanding into a matter of national security.
In response to these trends, the government is pursuing the development of its own specialized AI foundation model to lead Korea's security ecosystem through this project. The goal is to build a domestically unique defense system for responding to cyber threats in a rapidly changing technology environment. The project application deadline is 2 p.m. on the 26th, and after the deadline, the government will select the implementing organization through an evaluation committee.
The selected consortium will begin the project after signing a first-phase agreement in September. The government will provide 256 Nvidia B200 graphics processing units (GPUs), or 32 nodes. An interim review will be conducted in December this year, and a phase evaluation will be conducted in February before the second-phase project is carried out after the interim review and phase evaluation. The final results will be announced in July next year.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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