By Kim Na-young
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s leading mobile carrier KT Corp. on Tuesday announced the launch of its large artificial intelligence (AI) model, Mi:dm, with the goal of expanding its AI business into the manufacturing, financial, education, public, and global markets.
KT stated that Mi:dm is the first large-scale language model (LLM) developed by a Korean company, trained on more than 1 trillion tokens. This model offers four different versions, with parameters ranging from 7 billion to 200 billion. This is higher than OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, which contains 175 billion parameters.
A photo of KT Corp.'s press conference unveiling its large artificial intelligence model Mi:dm provided by the company (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
“The large AI market is going through rapid digital innovations as big tech companies and startups are jumping in,” Song Jae-ho, head of KT’s AI/DX convergence division, said in the press conference announcing the launch of Mi:dm. “We will focus all our capacity toward helping South Korea become a leader in the digital transformation by opening up our differentiated large AI model.”
KT plans to invest 1.5 trillion won (US$1.1 billion) in the AI technology to reach 100 billion won in sales by 2026. The company will first focus on the business-to-business market and later expand into the business-to-customer (B2C) market. KT also stated it will cooperate with Thailand’s communication technology company Jasmine Group in creating an LLM service based on the Thai language using the same technologies used for creating Mi:dm.
A photo of KT Corp.'s press conference unveiling its large artificial intelligence model Mi:dm provided by the company (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
KT will open up the foundation model of Mi:dm to other companies, providing a full AI development package, including KT Cloud’s hyperscale AI computing service and AI chip startup Rebellions Inc.’s neural processing unit infrastructure, fostering the development of various AI services.
Upstage, an AI startup, stated that the decision to open up Mi:dm is a very big move and will have a big impact on the domestic ecosystem. Upstage is one of various AI startups KT plans to join hands with to develop different AI business models to break into the global generative AI market, which is expected to grow to $1.3 trillion by 2032, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report.
KT also said it has developed three technologies — document AI, search AI and factguard AI — to reduce AI hallucinations, a phenomenon where an LLM generates false information, by up to 70 percent compared to other generative AI services.
The document AI technology will allow KT’s Mi:dm to understand schematized and complicated documents, the search AI will search the latest information through deep-learning technology and the factguard AI technology will help generate responses only based on original documents.
nyway@yna.co.kr
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