# LG AI Research — EXAONE 3.0 : Showcasing Our First Open-Source LLM with Global Top-Level Performance

- Company: LG AI Research (lgresearch.ai)
- Announced: 2024-08-07T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: open-weight-release
- Subject: EXAONE
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: EXAONE 3.0 7.8B Instruction Tuned Language Model
- Source: https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=460
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4839-exaone-3-0-showcasing-our-first-open-source-llm-with-global-top-level

LG AI Research announces the release of EXAONE 3.0, specifically the 7.8B Instruction Tuned language model as an open-source model for research. The model achieves top global performance in English and Korean benchmarks, demonstrates significant cost reduction (to 6% of the cost of EXAONE 1.0), and includes ethical transparency through red teaming and disclosure of improvement areas.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=460:

> August 2024. Finally, we are excited to announce EXAONE 3.0. Among various EXAONE 3.0 language model lineups, we are releasing the 7.8B Instruction Tuned model as an open source for research.

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