LG AI Research releases EXAONE 4.0

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EXAONE 4.0 released — 32B (expert) and 1.2B (on-device), under a license for research and academic use

Why it matters

A hybrid that integrates reasoning and agent capabilities (MCP, function calling)

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Officiallgresearch.aihttps://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=575

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In the model family tree — Korean models family · 21 versions

  1. Earlier versionEXAONE Deep
  2. This recordEXAONE 4.0
  3. Later versionK-EXAONE
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