Government Speeds Up Launch of 'Everyone's AI' This Year; SKT, Kakao, and KT Unveil Development Plans
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The government and SKT, Kakao, and KT have begun development of the AI service for the entire public, 'Everyone's AI,' with the goal of launching it within this year.
The Ministry of Science and ICT held a meeting with operators on the 4th to discuss service development plans and cooperation measures, and also announced a launch preparation plan.
The three consortia will provide general-purpose chatbots and field-specific agents based on domestic AI models, focusing not only on information search but also on actual task execution such as applications, reservations, and payments.
The government, SK Telecom (SKT), Kakao, and KT have begun full-scale development work with the goal of launching the AI service for the entire public, 'Everyone's AI,' within this year. The government has decided to push ahead with the project through public-private collaboration.
The Ministry of Science and ICT held a meeting with the three selected consortium operators for the 'Everyone's AI' project on the 4th at the Press Center in Seoul. The meeting discussed service development plans and areas of cooperation.
The Ministry of Science and ICT that day announced a 'plan to prepare for the launch of the Everyone's AI service.' The plan includes efforts to link public AI agents to support use by the entire public, measures to protect personal information and strengthen security, and plans to build public-private cooperation to secure users.
The SKT, Kakao, and KT consortia unveiled prototype videos of their services and presented their respective development directions. All three consortia said they would pursue services based on domestic AI models and provide general-purpose chatbots and field-specific agents. They also said they would focus not only on information search but on actual task execution such as applications, reservations, and payments.
The Kakao consortium will build a platform based on domestic AI models such as 'Kanana(Kanana)' and 'EXAONE,' using existing service touchpoints such as KakaoTalk and phone calls. The platform will connect general-purpose chatbots with public and specialized agents, and handle information search, applications, reservations, and payments in a single conversation.
Going forward, the Kakao consortium plans to gradually expand personal AI agents and also gradually broaden an open agent marketplace. It also plans to integrate external AI companies' services into the platform, with the aim of expanding user choice and broadening the foundation for the use of domestic AI models and services.
The KT consortium also unveiled 'Eum,' which connects a general-purpose AI agent based on real-time search with more than 10 specialized services in areas including public services, education, finance, and shopping, in a direction that allows users to access services in various fields from a single touchpoint. 'Eum' is a way of linking field-specific AI agents so that multiple services can be used from one touchpoint.
The service will operate using the AI platform 'Token Factory.' 'Token Factory' integrates domestic AI models, GPU, and NPU infrastructure, and has a function that automatically connects the model best suited to a user's request.
The SKT consortium focused on agentic AI. Agentic AI refers to a scope that goes beyond simple question-and-answer interactions to carry out identity verification, service applications, and payment procedures, and it is being developed in a direction that allows AI to handle the necessary procedures.
It will also introduce phone- and text-based agents to strengthen accessibility. The aim is to enable users who are not familiar with mobile applications or the web to use AI services without complicated operations.
The government and the three consortia plan to unveil public services within this year after development and demonstration work. The Ministry of Science and ICT will be responsible for supporting public service integration and common tasks such as personal information protection and security, while each operator will drive consortium-specific service development and user acquisition.
Bae Kyung-hoon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT, said the final goal of the 'Everyone's AI' project is to establish new domestic AI services in people's daily lives, and identified the public's ease of access to services, the frequency with which people use the services, and the degree to which the services contribute to real life as key criteria for judging that outcome.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406544
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