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

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2026-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: EXAONE
- Models affected: EXAONE, EXAONE 4.0 1.2B
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=639
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4753-lg-aimers-8th-taking-on-the-challenge-with-exaone-korea-s-representative-ai

LG AI Research hosted the 8th LG Aimers Hackathon, where 27 teams of young talents competed to develop compressed versions of the EXAONE model, focusing on on-device AI optimization. The event included a job fair with LG affiliates and awarded prizes for the best compressed models.

## Evidence

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

> The theme for this hackathon, presented by LG AI Research, was ‘Developing a Compressed EXAONE Model.’

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