# 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: 2026-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: EXAONE
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: K-EXAONE 2.0, EXAONE 4.5
- License: Apache 2.0
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=678
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4739-lg-ai-research-unveils-k-exaone-2-0-korea-s-largest-750-billion-parameter-ai

LG AI Research released K-EXAONE 2.0, a 750-billion-parameter open-source foundation model, on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 license. The model surpasses the previous 236B model in scale and performance across benchmarks, including long-context understanding, agentic capabilities, and multilingual support. It also achieved high safety scores. Additionally, the institute introduced the EXAONE 4.5 vision-language model and is expanding into various sectors.

## Evidence

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

> LG AI Research has released K-EXAONE 2.0, the second model developed under the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT's Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project, on the open-source platform Hugging Face on July 31.

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