# LG AI Research — LG AI Research Unveils K-EXAONE 2.0, Korea's Largest 750-Billion-Parameter AI Foundation Model

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2026-07-31
- Category: open-weight-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=678
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10986-lg-ai-research-unveils-k-exaone-2-0-korea-s-largest-750-billion-parameter-ai
- Subject: EXAONE
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: K-EXAONE 2.0, EXAONE 4.5
- License: Apache 2.0

LG AI Research released K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750-billion-parameter open-source foundation model, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license. The model achieved an average score of 70.1 across 24 benchmarks, outperforming the first-phase model by over 10%, and demonstrated competitive or superior performance in long-context understanding, agentic capabilities, and instruction following compared to global models such as GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 Pro Max, and Qwen3.5. It also supports 10 languages and scored 94.6 on safety benchmarks, surpassing several leading models.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=678:

> With 750 billion parameters, K-EXAONE 2.0 is the largest AI foundation model developed in Korea to date, representing more than a threefold increase in scale compared to the first-phase model (236B). To further promote openness and adoption, LG AI Research has also transitioned the model's license to Apache 2.0, allowing commercial use without restrictions.

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