# LG AI Research — The Story of Ahra Jo, Leading the DDU Research to Build an AI That Understands All Documents in the World

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2025-03-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: EXAONE
- Models affected: ChatEXAONE, EXAONE Discovery
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=538
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4801-the-story-of-ahra-jo-leading-the-ddu-research-to-build-an-ai-that-understands

LG AI Research's Deep Document Understanding (DDU) technology enables AI to comprehend various types of information in documents, including pictures, graphs, and tables. The technology has been partially applied to ChatEXAONE, an AI assistant for enterprise professionals, and is used in the Financial AI project and EXAONE Discovery platform.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=538:

> the DDU technology has been partially applied to the process of understanding user documents, and we plan to gradually expand its use. In the Financial AI project, it is used to extract and organize numerical data from charts and tables in financial report documentss to generate new financial reports. In EXAONE Discovery , a platform for discovering new materials, novel substances, and drug discovery, DDU technology is utilized to detect and convert molecular structures.

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