# LG AI Research — LG's first publicly released Vision Language Model, EXAONE 4.5

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2026-04-09T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: EXAONE
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: EXAONE 4.5
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=641
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4752-lg-s-first-publicly-released-vision-language-model-exaone-4-5

LG AI Research announces EXAONE 4.5, its first vision language model released under an open-weight approach, featuring a native multimodal pretraining approach and improved inference speed via multi-token prediction.

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Verbatim from https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=641:

> LG AI Research is introducing EXAONE 4.5. EXAONE 4.5 is LG’s first Vision Language Model (VLM) to be released using an open-weight approach.

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