- Available for research purposes,
contributing to an AI ecosystem
SEOUL,
South Korea, Aug. 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- LG AI Research today released its latest AI model,
EXAONE 3.0, as open source for research purposes.
To contribute to the development of the AI research ecosystem,
LG AI Research has decided to open source the 'lightweight model'
of EXAONE 3.0, which is the most versatile in terms of performance
and cost-efficiency, so that it can be utilized for various
research purposes.
The company is also preparing for the transition to the 'era of
everyday AI' by releasing the open beta version of ChatEXAONE, an
enterprise AI agent based on EXAONE 3.0, to LG's
employees.
EXAONE 3.0 proved global
competitiveness with top performance among global open-source AI
models
LG AI Research published a technical report detailing the model
training method and performance evaluation findings of EXAONE
3.0.
LG AI Research has been focusing on research and development to
apply generative AI to real-world industrial applications from its
inception, including the release of EXAONE 1.0 in December 2021 and EXAONE 2.0 in July 2023.
The latest iteration, EXAONE 3.0, combines enhanced performance
with cost-efficiency.
Compared to its predecessor, EXAONE 2.0, EXAONE 3.0 shows
excellent results in both performance and economy, with 56% less
processing time for inference, 35% less memory usage, and 72% lower
operating costs.
To solve the problem of power consumption triggered by AI, LG AI
Research focused on researching lightweight and optimization
technologies and succeeded in reducing the size of the model by 97%
while increasing performance compared to EXAONE 1.0.
In the technical report of EXAONE 3.0, LG AI Research disclosed
both the individual scores of the 25 benchmarks used in the
evaluation, including MT-Bench, AlpacaEval-2.0, Arena-Hard, and
WildBench, which comprehensively evaluate the real-world use cases
performance of AI models, as well as the average score for each
area, to enhance the reliability of the results.
EXAONE 3.0 ranked global top in 13 benchmark scores, including
real-world use cases, coding, and math, demonstrating its global
competitiveness when compared to other global open-source AI models
of similar size, such as Meta's Llama 3.1 and Google's Gemma 2.
EXAONE 3.0, a bilingual model that can learn and understand both
Korean and English, also recorded the world's best performance in
Korean.
To improve the performance of EXAONE 3.0, LG's AI Research used
more than 60 million data from patents, software code, math,
chemistry, and other specialized fields for training. As part of
its strategic expansion, the company aims to incorporate additional
fields such as law, biology, medicine, education, and various
languages by the year-end, to surpass 100 million data points to
bolster the system's performance.
LG AI Research have also been working to enhance the safety and
reliability of EXAONE 3.0 by conducting red-teaming, which involves
intentionally attacking the AI model to verify vulnerabilities in
technologies, and then improving them.
LG products and services with
EXAONE 3.0 will be available in the second half of the year
LG AI Research will work with LG affiliates to bring EXAONE 3.0
to products and services in the second half of the year.
LG AI Research has designed different model sizes for different
applications, from the 'ultra-lightweight model' for on-device AI
to the 'lightweight model' for general purpose, to the
'high-performance model' for specialized applications.
LG affiliates will fine-tune EXAONE 3.0 with their data and
apply it to their businesses, products, and services to accelerate
innovation.
LG AI Research is also actively discussing global
partnerships.
"As it is important to create AI that can be used in real-world
industries, we plan to strengthen partnerships between LG
affiliates and other companies and institutions with EXAONE, which
has specialized performance and cost-efficiency," said Bae
Kyunghoon, President of LG AI Research. "In particular, we plan to
open source this highly versatile and lightweight model so that
academia and research institutes can utilize the latest generative
AI technology, contributing to the AI research ecosystem and
further enhancing AI competitiveness."
LG's AI assistant,
ChatEXAONE, debuted as an Enterprise AI Agent
LG will start the open beta service of ChatEXAONE for its
affiliates' employees from the 7th.
ChatEXAONE is an enterprise AI agent based on EXAONE 3.0 and
provides a variety of functions to enhance work productivity,
including real-time web-based Q&A, document and image-based
Q&A, coding, and database management.
LG employees can experience a change in the way they work by
using AI for various tasks, from searching to summarization,
translation, data analysis, report writing, and coding.
ChatEXAONE adopted 'Retrieval-Augmented Generation' (RAG)
technology that utilizes real-time web search results to understand
the context of the user's instruction (prompts) and provide answers
that reflect the latest information.
"Generative AI generates different results depending on the
prompts, i.e., how the question is asked," said an official from LG
AI Research. "We have also applied a feature that recommends sample
questions that fit the user's job so that people who are not
familiar with generative AI can use it comfortably."
ChatEXAONE also provides features for software developers and
data analytics experts.
LG AI Research expects that ChatEXAONE can generate queries in
22 programming languages (such as Python, Java, and C++,) and SQL
(Structured Query Language) for database management, using only
natural language (a language used by humans daily) input. This will
help users improve their work productivity.
LG AI Research will release an open beta service through the end
of the year and regularly update it to reflect the feedback and
ideas of employees, and will provide the official service and
mobile app according to the readiness of each LG affiliate.
For affiliates that need to learn proprietary documents and
secure data, the company plans to build separate specialized
services, like the case of LG Display, which in June built an AI
service that can answer questions after training 300,000 additional
proprietary documents.
Meanwhile, LG has been accelerating its AI transformation for
the past four years after establishing the LG AI Research, an AI
think tank for LG Group, in December
2020, and has planned to invest KRW
3.6 trillion in R&D in AI by 2026 for future
technologies, and global AI talents.
Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of
LG Group has identified AI as a future business and emphasized bold
investment and innovation, leading to tangible results such as
increasing the number of AI technology applications at each
affiliate's business sites and expanding external partnerships,
including production processes, product development, and customer
service improvement.
About LG Group
LG Group is a leading global company representing South Korea, offering innovative products and
services across various industries such as electronics, chemicals,
telecommunications, and energy. Established in 1947, LG Group has
grown into a world-renowned brand through its activities in these
diverse fields. The company is committed to continuous research and
development, focusing on innovation to enhance the quality of life
for its customers. Emphasizing its role as a socially responsible
enterprise, LG Group is striving to strengthen its competitiveness
in the global market and achieve sustainable growth through its
future portfolio in areas like AI, Bio, and Cleantech. The company
is dedicated to realizing its vision of being a business that
provides value to customers and society, pursuing this mission with
unwavering determination.
About LG AI Research
Launched in December 2020 as the
artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korea's LG Group, LG AI Research aims to
lead the next epoch of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize a
promising future by providing optimal research environments and
leveraging state-of-the-art AI technologies. And LG AI Research
developed its large-scale AI, EXAONE, a 300 billion parametric
multimodal AI model, in 2021. EXAONE, which stands for "Expert AI
for Everyone," is a multi-modal large-scale AI model that stands
out from its peers due to its ability to process both language and
visual data. With one of the world's largest learning data
capacities, LG AI Research aims to engineer better business
decisions through its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence
technologies and its continuous effort on fundamental AI research.
For more information, visit https://www.lgresearch.ai/.
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