LG Launches Bid to Build an End-to-End AI Infrastructure
IEEE Spectrum - AI
Aug 3, 2025 13:00
Kate Park
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Summary
LG AI Research has launched Exaone 4.0, a hybrid reasoning AI model that reportedly surpasses similar offerings from Alibaba, Microsoft, and Mistral AI in science, math, and coding benchmarks, though it trails Deepseek’s top model. Unlike consumer-focused AI like ChatGPT, LG is targeting the B2B sector, signaling a strategic push to provide advanced AI infrastructure tailored for enterprise needs. This move highlights growing specialization and competition in the AI field, particularly for business applications.
On 15 July, LG AI Research—the AI R&D arm of South Korea’s LG Group—unveiled Exaone 4.0, a hybrid reasoning AI model that combines general language processing with the advanced reasoning capabilities introduced through the company’s earlier Exaone Deep model. LG AI Research says its new model outperforms similar models from Alibaba, Microsoft, and Mistral AI in industry benchmarks for science, math, and coding. However, Exaone 4.0 still falls short of Deepseek’s best model. However, LG AI Research isn’t chasing the same users as most of the familiar names in AI. Unlike models such as ChatGPT and Gemini, which are primarily designed for the average person, LG AI is targeting business users. “Our primary focus is on the business-to-business (B2B) sector rather than business-to-consumer [for now],” says Honglak Lee, the newly appointed co-head of LG AI Research and former research scientist at Google Brain. LG launched the company in December 2020 as part of the Korean tech giant’s digita