LG to take on OpenAI, DeepSeek with Korea's first reasoning AI model

LG AI Research has unveiled the country’s first reasoning artificial intelligence model, Exaone Deep with top-tier performance to compete head-on with industry-leading players including OpenAI and DeepSeek, Tuesday.

The research institute, affiliated with Korea's fourth-largest conglomerate LG, introduced the new foundation model at this year's Nvidia GTC, an AI conference held in Silicon Valley. The company claimed the model outperforms leading US and Chinese AI models with fewer parameters and graphic processing units.

According to LG, Exaone Deep 32B features 32 billion parameters, which is only 5 percent of the parameters of China's DeepSeek R1 -- runs on 671 billion parameters -- but demonstrates exceptional performance, especially in solving complex mathematical and scientific problems. A parameter is a numeric value that helps AI models process data and make decisions.