LG AI Research releases EXAONE 4.5 33B

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Released EXAONE 4.5 33B — LG's first open-weight vision-language model

Why it matters

As LG's first open-weight vision-language model, it marks the point where Korea's open-weight route expanded beyond text

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On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line

  1. Previous stopKimi K2 Thinking
  2. This recordEXAONE 4.5 33B
  3. Next stopK-EXAONE 2.0
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In the model family tree — Korean models family · 21 versions

  1. Earlier versionK-EXAONE
  2. This recordEXAONE 4.5 33B
  3. Later versionK-EXAONE 2.0
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