KT, 16 Companies Accelerate “Everyone’s AI” Initiative ... Beta Service to Be Unveiled in October

KT has begun work with 16 companies to build AI services that people can actually experience in their daily lives. To that end, it is establishing a cooperation framework that links AI models, token factories, data, and infrastructure, and plans to unveil a beta service for “Everyone’s AI” in October.

KT said it held the launch ceremony for the Everyone’s AI consortium on the 21st at the KT Gwanghwamun WEST building in Jongno-gu, Seoul. The event was attended by KT, executives from major consortium companies, and PMs from the 16 participating companies.

At the launch ceremony, the participating companies shared their business vision and direction. They also reviewed the cooperation framework for service implementation and confirmed how they would work together.

KT and the participating companies plan to pursue a joint project centered on the "Ieum Alliance." The goal is to combine each company’s technology and service capabilities to connect AI to everyday services for the public.

The project’s decision-making structure consists of the "Ieum Connect Board" and the "Ieum Echo Round." The "Ieum Connect Board" is responsible for coordinating the project’s main direction, adjusting priorities, aligning inter-institutional linkage tasks, and managing service launch goals.

The "Ieum Echo Round" is a consultative body in which all participating institutions take part regularly. The group shares project progress and key achievements, reviews major schedules and milestones, and coordinates issues among institutions.

The execution organization is divided into a service division and a platform division. The service division is responsible for planning user-centered AI services, designing UX, linking public and specialized services, and launching public and specialized services.

The platform division is responsible for linking AI models, token factories, data, infrastructure, and APIs. This division structure was designed to divide service and underlying technology responsibilities while connecting the development process with collaboration among institutions.

Based on this framework, the KT consortium plans to unveil the beta service for Everyone’s AI in October. Its release-based strategy is called "Ieum Inside," an open structure that embeds AI in the many services people use and connects them into a single general-purpose AI agent.

Based on this cooperation framework, KT is pursuing the Everyone’s AI project, which brings multiple AI models and services together on a single platform, and plans to allow users to use AI functions within existing services. KT is focusing on building a structure based on this cooperation framework, and intends to connect models, platforms, and services to actual user experiences through it.

To that end, KT plans to expand the ecosystem so that new AI model and service companies can join, while also broadening the scope of application under its ecosystem-opening plan. As a result, use cases will expand beyond information search to public services, education, finance, and everyday convenience.

Lee Jin-hyung, executive vice president and head of KT AX Business Division, said the consortium marks the starting point for AI services that people can feel in their daily lives by bringing together the capabilities of domestic AI companies in AI models, platforms, and services. He added that the goal is to strengthen cooperation among participating companies around the Ieum Alliance and improve execution so that AI services tangible in everyday life can be realized.

Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407268

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