LG AI Research releases EXAONE 3.0
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EXAONE 3.0 released — a lightweight model open-sourced for research use; bilingual in Korean and English
Why it matters
The first open release of an in-house LLM by a major Korean company. But its research-only license also revealed the conservatism of the Korean approach to openness
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Officiallg.co.krhttps://www.lg.co.kr/media/release/27972Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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- Earlier versionThe first version in this branch
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- Later versionEXAONE 3.5