# LG AI Research — LG Aimers 8th: Taking on the Challenge with ‘EXAONE,’ Korea’s Representative AI

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2026-04-06
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=639
- Record: https://forck.live/items/10992-lg-aimers-8th-taking-on-the-challenge-with-exaone-korea-s-representative-ai
- Subject: EXAONE
- Models affected: EXAONE, EXAONE 4.0 1.2B

LG AI Research held the 8th LG Aimers offline hackathon, where 27 teams of young participants competed to develop compressed versions of the EXAONE model. The winning team, Hand Cream Mice, took the Grand Prize by using W8A8 quantization to maximize memory efficiency. The event also included a job fair with eight LG affiliates and career support activities.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.lgresearch.ai/news/view?seq=639:

> By leveraging W8A8 quantization, ‘Hand Cream Mice’ team topped both the leaderboard and the overall rankings with a brilliant strategy that maximized memory efficiency with minimal loss in performance.

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