00:02You're listening to AI Prism from Seoul Economic Daily.
00:06Korea just picked its next generation national AI teams and one favorite got cut.
00:12Three of Korea's biggest tech companies are racing to build a free AI chatbot for every citizen.
00:19LG just partnered with NVIDIA to build one of the largest robot training data sets in the world.
00:25And nearly three million students' personal records have been breached in under five years.
00:31It's Wednesday, August 19th. Let's look at what this means for job seekers and graduates in Korea.
00:39Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT ran its second round evaluation of the country's Sovereign AI Foundation model project,
00:47testing four contenders on benchmarks, expert review, and real user testing.
00:52Upstage, SK Telecom, and LG AI Research all advanced,
00:57while Motif Technologies was eliminated despite topping one technical benchmark.
01:03The final two winners will be chosen by year-end,
01:06and they're expected to anchor Korea's push to compete with U.S. and Chinese AI labs.
01:11Here's what the numbers show.
01:13Upstage, SK Telecom, and LG AI Research all cleared the round with user evaluation scores averaging 17.6 out of
01:2225,
01:24a five-point gap between first and fourth place.
01:27Motif Technologies topped the benchmark score at 22.5 out of 40 average,
01:33but was eliminated on weaker usability and real user testing.
01:37Six companies, including SK Telecom, KT, and Kakao, submitted proposals for Korea's free national AI chatbot project,
01:46called Modu UI AI, with winners chosen by month-end.
01:51LG Electronics CEO Choju Wan met NVIDIA robotics executive Madison Hwang to secure roughly 100,000 hours,
02:00about 12 years' worth of robot training data by year-end.
02:04A Sogong University hack exposed 180,000 people's data this month,
02:10pushing Korea's five-year university data breach total to roughly 2.96 million people.
02:17Two senior Ministry of Economy and Finance officials landed executive investor relations roles
02:23at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix this month,
02:27a well-worn path from government to Korea's biggest exporters.
02:31So what does this mean for job seekers and graduates in Korea?
02:36Earlier, we said Korea just picked its next-generation national AI teams,
02:41and one favorite got cut.
02:43Here's what that actually means for you.
02:46The AI hiring boom at Upstage, SK Telecom, and LG AI Research is real,
02:52but it now rewards product and deployment skills as much as pure research ability.
02:58LG's robotics data deal signals a fast-growing hiring track in physical AI and robotics engineering,
03:05not just software.
03:06And if data security or compliance interests you,
03:10Korea's university breach numbers point to a widening,
03:13underserved job market in cybersecurity.
03:16Three things to watch this week.
03:18The final two sovereign AI model winners, expected by year-end.
03:24The Modu-UI AI operator selection, expected by the end of this month.
03:29Whether more Korean universities disclose breaches following the Sogong University hack.
03:35That's today's AI Prism, students and grads.
03:40This episode was produced with AI assistance based on Seoul Economic Daily reporting
03:45and reviewed by a human editor.
03:48AI Prism is a Juan Ifra award-winning series.
03:51We'll be back tomorrow.
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