Language models from South Korea
18
Models
9 organisations
78%
Open weights
14 open, 4 closed
1
Frontier
By Epoch's flag
750B
Largest traceable
K-EXAONE 2.0
2017–2026
Span
12 with a traceable size
Organisation
Records
18| Model | Organisation | Released | Parameters | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Motif-3 | Motif Technologies | 2026-08 | 314B | Open |
| A.X K2 | SK Telecom | 2026-07 | 688B | Open |
| K-EXAONE 2.0 | LG AI Research | 2026-07 | 750B | Open |
| Solar Open2 250B | Upstage | 2026-06 | 250B * | Open |
| EXAONE 4.5 | LG AI Research | 2026-04 | 33B | Open |
| A.X K1 | SK Telecom | 2025-12 | 519B | Open |
| K-EXAONE | LG AI Research | 2025-12 | 236B | Open |
| Solar Open 100B | Upstage | 2025-12 | 102B | Open |
| VAETKI | NC AI | 2025-12 | 100B | Open |
| EXAONE 4.0 (32B) | LG AI Research | 2025-07 | 32B | Open |
| EXAONE Deep 32B | LG AI Research | 2025-03 | 32B | Open |
| EXAONE 3.5 32B | LG AI Research | 2024-12 | 32B | Open |
| Volcano 13B | Korea University | 2023-11 | 13B * | Open |
| Fusion in Encoder | Samsung | 2022-11 | 330M * | Closed |
| HyperCLOVA 204B | NAVER | 2021-09 | 204B * | Closed |
| DensePhrases | Korea University | 2020-12 | — | Open |
| MemoReader | Samsung | 2018-10 | — | Closed |
| EI-REHN-1000D | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) | 2017-08 | 19M | Closed |
An asterisk marks a parameter figure the source does not consider traceable to the people who built the model. That judgement is the source’s and it has false negatives: Kimi K3 is marked speculative at 2.8T while Moonshot’s own model card states the figure. Why that distinction carries the whole exhibit.
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