Security-Focused AI Race Narrows to a Two-Horse Battle Between Naver-LG and SKT-Upstage
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The number of participants in the call for proposals for the cybersecurity-focused AI foundation model development competition has been reduced to 2.
One side is a consortium jointly formed by Naver Cloud and LG, and the other is an SK Telecom (SKT) consortium joined by Upstage.
The government will select the project operator from among them, and the selected consortium will sign a first-stage agreement in September before beginning the project.
The race to develop a cybersecurity-focused AI foundation model has narrowed to a two-horse battle. According to industry sources on the 26th, the number of participants in the security-focused AI project call for proposals has been reduced to 2. The deadline for the call for proposals is 2 p.m. on the 26th.
One side is a consortium jointly formed by Naver Cloud and LG. As cooperation between Naver Cloud and LG took shape, a joint response system between the two was established. The other side is an SK Telecom (SKT) consortium joined by Upstage.
LG initially sought to participate in the project by forming a consortium centered on LG CNS, LG AI Research Institute, and LG Uplus. However, LG's final decision was to join the Naver Cloud consortium, and the company settled on partnering with Naver Cloud rather than building its own separate bloc.
SKT and Upstage have formed a cooperative structure for this project. Cooperation between SKT and Upstage took shape, and Upstage joined the SKT consortium. In this project, SKT and Upstage are moving to pool their AI capabilities and pursue the contract.
However, SKT and Upstage are competing for final selection in the independent AI foundation model project. They are rivals in other AI foundation model projects, but in this call for proposals, they are cooperating. An Upstage official said it was difficult to confirm whether the company had joined the SKT consortium.
Against the backdrop of a shift in the cybersecurity landscape, with global big tech AI models showing strength in vulnerability detection, the government is pursuing the development of a security-focused AI foundation model to lead a Korean security ecosystem and establish an independent defense system for South Korea. The call for proposals is open to 2 consortiums, and the government plans to select the project operator from among them.
The selected consortium will sign a first-stage agreement in September and then begin the project, receiving 256 NVIDIA B200 GPUs (32 nodes) as government support. It will then undergo a midterm review in December and a phase review in February before carrying out the second-stage project, with the final results to be announced in July next year.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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