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Korea adds Motif Technologies to its independent AI foundation model project

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Selected an additional elite team for the independent AI foundation model project — the Motif Technologies consortium (with Moreh, Crowdworks, NdotLight, KAIST and Mathpresso); Trillion Labs, the other applicant, narrowly missed out

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Brought the project back to four teams after the first-round cut, all to be evaluated in August under the same development period, GPUs and data

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