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LG Unveils Korea’s First Open Source AI, ‘EXAONE 3.0’

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SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LG AI Research today released its latest AI model, EXAONE 3.0, as open source for research purposes.

To contribute to the development of the AI research ecosystem, LG AI Research has decided to open source the ‘lightweight model’ of EXAONE 3.0, which is the most versatile in terms of performance and cost-efficiency, so that it can be utilized for various research purposes.

The company is also preparing for the transition to the ‘era of everyday AI’ by releasing the open beta version of ChatEXAONE, an enterprise AI agent based on EXAONE 3.0, to LG’s employees. 

EXAONE 3.0 proved global competitiveness with top performance among global open-source AI models

LG AI Research published a technical report detailing the model training method and performance evaluation findings of EXAONE 3.0.

LG AI Research has been focusing on research and development to apply generative AI to real-world industrial applications from its inception, including the release of EXAONE 1.0 in December 2021 and EXAONE 2.0 in July 2023.

The latest iteration, EXAONE 3.0, combines enhanced performance with cost-efficiency.

Compared to its predecessor, EXAONE 2.0, EXAONE 3.0 shows excellent results in both performance and economy, with 56% less processing time for inference, 35% less memory usage, and 72% lower operating costs.

To solve the problem of power consumption triggered by AI, LG AI Research focused on researching lightweight and optimization technologies and succeeded in reducing the size of the model by 97% while increasing performance compared to EXAONE 1.0.

In the technical report of EXAONE 3.0, LG AI Research disclosed both the individual scores of the 25 benchmarks used in the evaluation, including MT-Bench, AlpacaEval-2.0, Arena-Hard, and WildBench, which comprehensively evaluate the real-world use cases performance of AI models, as well as the average score for each area, to enhance the reliability of the results.

EXAONE 3.0 ranked global top in 13 benchmark scores, including real-world use cases, coding, and math, demonstrating its global competitiveness when compared to other global open-source AI models of similar size, such as Meta’s Llama 3.1 and Google’s Gemma 2.

EXAONE 3.0, a bilingual model that can learn and understand both Korean and English, also recorded the world’s best performance in Korean.

To improve the performance of EXAONE 3.0, LG’s AI Research used more than 60 million data from patents, software code, math, chemistry, and other specialized fields for training. As part of its strategic expansion, the company aims to incorporate additional fields such as law, biology, medicine, education, and various languages by the year-end, to surpass 100 million data points to bolster the system’s performance.

LG AI Research have also been working to enhance the safety and reliability of EXAONE 3.0 by conducting red-teaming, which involves intentionally attacking the AI model to verify vulnerabilities in technologies, and then improving them.

LG products and services with EXAONE 3.0 will be available in the second half of the year

LG AI Research will work with LG affiliates to bring EXAONE 3.0 to products and services in the second half of the year. 

LG AI Research has designed different model sizes for different applications, from the ‘ultra-lightweight model’ for on-device AI to the ‘lightweight model’ for general purpose, to the ‘high-performance model’ for specialized applications.

LG affiliates will fine-tune EXAONE 3.0 with their data and apply it to their businesses, products, and services to accelerate innovation.

LG AI Research is also actively discussing global partnerships.

“As it is important to create AI that can be used in real-world industries, we plan to strengthen partnerships between LG affiliates and other companies and institutions with EXAONE, which has specialized performance and cost-efficiency,” said Bae Kyunghoon, President of LG AI Research. “In particular, we plan to open source this highly versatile and lightweight model so that academia and research institutes can utilize the latest generative AI technology, contributing to the AI research ecosystem and further enhancing AI competitiveness.”

LG‘s AI assistant, ChatEXAONE, debuted as an Enterprise AI Agent

LG will start the open beta service of ChatEXAONE for its affiliates’ employees from the 7th.

ChatEXAONE is an enterprise AI agent based on EXAONE 3.0 and provides a variety of functions to enhance work productivity, including real-time web-based Q&A, document and image-based Q&A, coding, and database management.

LG employees can experience a change in the way they work by using AI for various tasks, from searching to summarization, translation, data analysis, report writing, and coding.

ChatEXAONE adopted ‘Retrieval-Augmented Generation’ (RAG) technology that utilizes real-time web search results to understand the context of the user’s instruction (prompts) and provide answers that reflect the latest information.

“Generative AI generates different results depending on the prompts, i.e., how the question is asked,” said an official from LG AI Research. “We have also applied a feature that recommends sample questions that fit the user’s job so that people who are not familiar with generative AI can use it comfortably.” 

ChatEXAONE also provides features for software developers and data analytics experts.

LG AI Research expects that ChatEXAONE can generate queries in 22 programming languages (such as Python, Java, and C++,) and SQL (Structured Query Language) for database management, using only natural language (a language used by humans daily) input. This will help users improve their work productivity.

LG AI Research will release an open beta service through the end of the year and regularly update it to reflect the feedback and ideas of employees, and will provide the official service and mobile app according to the readiness of each LG affiliate.

For affiliates that need to learn proprietary documents and secure data, the company plans to build separate specialized services, like the case of LG Display, which in June built an AI service that can answer questions after training 300,000 additional proprietary documents.

Meanwhile, LG has been accelerating its AI transformation for the past four years after establishing the LG AI Research, an AI think tank for LG Group, in December 2020, and has planned to invest KRW 3.6 trillion in R&D in AI by 2026 for future technologies, and global AI talents. 

Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of LG Group has identified AI as a future business and emphasized bold investment and innovation, leading to tangible results such as increasing the number of AI technology applications at each affiliate’s business sites and expanding external partnerships, including production processes, product development, and customer service improvement.

About LG Group

LG Group is a leading global company representing South Korea, offering innovative products and services across various industries such as electronics, chemicals, telecommunications, and energy. Established in 1947, LG Group has grown into a world-renowned brand through its activities in these diverse fields. The company is committed to continuous research and development, focusing on innovation to enhance the quality of life for its customers. Emphasizing its role as a socially responsible enterprise, LG Group is striving to strengthen its competitiveness in the global market and achieve sustainable growth through its future portfolio in areas like AI, Bio, and Cleantech. The company is dedicated to realizing its vision of being a business that provides value to customers and society, pursuing this mission with unwavering determination.

About LG AI Research

Launched in December 2020 as the artificial intelligence (AI) research hub of South Korea’s LG Group, LG AI Research aims to lead the next epoch of artificial intelligence (AI) to realize a promising future by providing optimal research environments and leveraging state-of-the-art AI technologies. And LG AI Research developed its large-scale AI, EXAONE, a 300 billion parametric multimodal AI model, in 2021. EXAONE, which stands for “Expert AI for Everyone,” is a multi-modal large-scale AI model that stands out from its peers due to its ability to process both language and visual data. With one of the world’s largest learning data capacities, LG AI Research aims to engineer better business decisions through its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies and its continuous effort on fundamental AI research. For more information, visit https://www.lgresearch.ai/.

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DentScribe Launches Perio Charting Benchmark and Reports 100% Across All Eight Levels

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DentScribe 2.165.0 passed 68 of 68 tests with 1,967 of 1,967 expected entries correct and zero extra entries in the company’s text-to-chart evaluation.

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DentScribe today announced its AI Periodontal Charting Benchmark 1.0 and accompanying performance report, giving dental practices and dental service organizations a practical framework for evaluating AI perio charting. Developed by DentScribe working with teams of dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants, the benchmark combines a written charting standard, 68 test scripts, expected charts, and a score card.

DentScribe introduces a new, transparent evaluation standard for AI periodontal charting.

In its November 2026 results report, DentScribe reported that it passed all 68 tests across eight levels and handled all 24 tested dictation styles perfectly. All 1,967 expected chart entries were correct, with no extra entries. The results evaluate how the engine converts supplied text into chart entries.

“A hygienist should be able to concentrate on the patient and the probe, not on remembering how a computer wants the findings dictated. We worked with dental teams to make those expectations testable, down to the tooth, site, and reading,” said Dr. Vinni K. Singh, DDS, AFAAID, Founder and CEO of DentScribe.

A Standard for the Chart and a Benchmark for the Software

The charting standard defines the expected interpretation: Universal tooth numbering, six sites per tooth, reading order as the probe travels around the mouth, and rules for missing teeth, corrections, findings, and scope. The benchmark then tests whether software follows those rules. An entry counts as correct only when the value or finding belongs to the right tooth and site. A test passes only when every expected entry is correct and nothing extra appears.

The eight levels progress from individual readings to complete examinations:

Explicit Tooth & Site Charting — Correct placement of named readings, including two-digit pocket depths.Automatic Navigation — Numbers-only dictation, midline direction changes, arch transitions, and missing teeth.Periodontal Findings — Bleeding, suppuration, recession, mucogingival junction measurements, and mobility.Flexible Phrasing & Navigation — Different word orders, findings during probing, jumps, and restatements.The Real Room — Filler words, patient conversation, corrections, and returning to or resuming probing.Accelerated Dictation — Shorthand, scope words, tooth lists, and ranges.Safety — Missing teeth receive no readings, incomplete readings stay incomplete, and findings do not spread to unmentioned sites.Complete Exams: Full Words & Shorthand — Two complete examinations, each expressed both ways, must produce matching charts.

Performance Beyond the Clean Scripts

DentScribe also passed all 13 additional noisy-room text versions, with 471 of 471 expected entries correct and zero extra entries. These scripts contain simulated speech-recognition mishearings; they are not a live suction-noise or microphone study. Across all 81 clean and noisy scripts, eight runs per script produced identical charts.

Both full-word and shorthand versions of each complete exam produced the same expected chart. For the second exam, shorthand reduced the script from 397 words to 210, about 47% fewer words. This measures script length, not demonstrated chairside time savings.

“Accurate transcription is only the beginning. Perio charting must preserve location and context while the clinician changes direction, corrects a reading, or adds a finding on another tooth. Publishing the scripts and expected charts lets customers inspect those behaviors themselves,” said Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja, Ph.D., Board Chair of DentScribe.

The benchmark suite reflects styles supported by DentScribe

Evaluate the Charting System in Your Practice

The kit provides read-aloud scripts, expected charts, and a score card. Practices can use the same reader, room, and microphone, score the first attempt, and count extra entries separately. The kit and performance report are available from DentScribe.

Book a benchmark demonstration: https://www.dentscribe.ai/book-a-demo

About DentScribe

DentScribe is an AI platform for dental documentation and practice intelligence. Founded by practicing dentist Dr. Vinni K. Singh, it combines dental SOAP notes and voice perio charting with DentScribe CoPilot, DentScribe GPS (Guided Production System), after-care summaries, specialist reports, and treatment coordinator notes. Its practice management integrations include Dentrix, Open Dental, and Eaglesoft. DentScribe helps teams complete documentation and act on information already present in the clinical record.

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CURE International completes electronic medical records rollout across its eight children’s hospitals with Thoughtworks

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BENGALURU, India, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy integrating design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation, worked with CURE International (CURE), a global non-profit, to move clinical records at all their pediatric hospitals from paper to a modern electronic medical records (EMR) system. CURE provides surgical care at no cost to children with treatable disabilities and their hospitals, seven across Africa and one in the Philippines, now run on Bahmni, an open-source hospital management system incubated by Thoughtworks for low-resource settings.

Much of the clinical work in CURE’s hospitals used to run on paper, with notes written by hand, carried between departments and re-entered later. Each hospital also has its own specialties, infrastructure and staffing.

Thoughtworks worked with the non-profit to modernize and standardize their systems to digitally document all their patient clinical care journeys. The partners customized and deployed Bahmni across CURE’s network.

The latest rollout builds on a partnership that began in 2023, when CURE first engaged Thoughtworks to digitize care in its children’s hospitals. Thoughtworks’ Managed Services team continues to run deployments and day-to-day operations across the network.

“Taking eight hospitals from paper to digital without interrupting care is a monumental challenge,” said Kevin de Smidt, Chief Technology Officer at CURE International. “The Thoughtworks team learned how our clinicians actually work, allowing us to roll out a system that lets our teams spend less time chasing paperwork and more time focused on providing world-class surgical care to the children we serve. Because we built this on Bahmni, these EMR enhancements are going back into the open-source project, ensuring the next low-resource hospital starts further ahead than we did.”

To give clinicians reliable digital tools in every hospital, the work focused on four priority areas:

Safer clinical care: Adding high-visibility alerts for allergies and the need for blood crossmatching, supervisor approval for changes to medication records, dosing guidance linked to each child’s weight and a new variable dose protocol.Less administrative work on the ward: Introducing electronic drug charts, automated nursing tasks and ward-level inpatient dashboards. A routine medication round now takes three clicks instead of seven.Better use of operating theaters: Tracking each patient’s surgical readiness in real time and suggesting a replacement patient when a scheduled surgery can’t go ahead.Reliable operations without disrupting care: Upgrading the platform that helped deployments reach each site 60% faster and causing 45% less disruption to patient services.

“Executing a multi-region clinical rollout across eight global hospitals demands absolute operational resilience,” said Steve Obana, Senior Vice President – Life Sciences & MedTech at Thoughtworks. “Healthcare platforms operating in these environments cannot afford downtime or instability. Our team approached this with rigorous engineering discipline and we are proud to provide the managed services backbone and technical stability that allows CURE’s medical teams to scale their life-changing work with absolute confidence in their systems.”

CURE has extended its managed services support with Thoughtworks for a further year, covering platform upgrades, stability and operations across all eight hospitals.

Features built for CURE, including inpatient care and monitoring and a digital medication administration record, are being contributed back to the core Bahmni project. This makes them available to other hospitals deploying the platform in low-resource settings.

By combining its experience building Bahmni with managed services operations, Thoughtworks is helping CURE International deliver technology that works where it matters most: giving clinicians reliable tools and information to provide safe, effective care for every child.

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Read the CURE International client story.Learn more about Bahmni.Explore Thoughtworks’ work in healthcare and managed services.Follow Thoughtworks on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

About CURE International

CURE International is a Christian nonprofit organization operating a global network of eight children’s hospitals that offer no-cost surgical interventions for children living with treatable disabilities. CURE hospitals provide life-changing care for children suffering from conditions such as cleft lip/palate, neglected clubfoot, bowed legs, burn contractures, spina bifida, brain tumors, and hydrocephalus. In addition to world-class clinical service, CURE ministers to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their communities. Since its first hospital opened in 1998, CURE has completed more than 5.7 million patient visits and over 400,000 life-changing surgeries.

For more information, visit https://cure.org

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates design, engineering and AI to drive digital innovation. We are over 10,000 people strong across 47 offices in 18 countries. For 30-plus years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology and culture as the differentiator.

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gary.weyel@cureinternational.org

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Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 Announces “OnChain Finance” Theme, Introduces Institutional Arena

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Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will focus on “OnChain Finance” and introduce its inaugural Institutional Arena, an invitation-only, closed-door program bringing together senior executives and decision-makers from global financial institutions and the digital asset industry to explore developments in on-chain finance and opportunities for institutional collaboration.

HONG KONG, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The fifth edition of Hong Kong Web3 Festival, co-hosted by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and HashKey Group and organized by W3ME, will take place from April 19 to 21, 2027, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Under the theme “OnChain Finance”, this year’s Festival will introduce its inaugural Institutional Arena, a fully closed-door, invitation-only program bringing together senior executives and key decision-makers from global banks, securities firms, asset managers, payment providers, insurance companies, family offices, and the digital asset industry to examine opportunities and future developments in on-chain finance.

As asset tokenization moves toward real-world adoption, stablecoin payments and on-chain settlement are expanding into a broader range of financial applications. Blockchain technology is becoming increasingly integrated into core financial market activities, including asset issuance, trading, payments, and settlement. Meanwhile, banks, asset managers, and payment companies worldwide are accelerating their engagement with digital assets, bringing greater attention to the integration of on-chain and traditional financial systems, cross-market collaboration, and regulatory compliance. From financial product innovation to the evolution of market mechanisms and infrastructure, OnChain Finance is driving deeper integration between blockchain technology and traditional finance.

Since its inaugural edition in 2023, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has witnessed the digital asset industry’s shift from infrastructure exploration toward practical applications, alongside growing engagement between traditional financial institutions and the digital asset sector. Previous editions have featured Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, sharing perspectives on digital assets and investment trends, as well as representatives from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), WeBank, and Ant International discussing financial technology innovation and real-world applications. Financial institutions including BlackRock, HSBC, China International Capital Corporation (CICC), and China Asset Management (Hong Kong) have also participated in industry discussions, reflecting the Festival’s continued engagement across banking, securities, asset management, investment, and financial technology.

Entering its fifth year, Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will build on its longstanding focus on blockchain innovation and next-generation financial infrastructure, with OnChain Finance as its annual theme. The Festival will explore key topics including asset tokenization, stablecoins and global payments, on-chain capital markets, institutional digital asset services, regulatory compliance, quantum computing and cryptography, AI and financial security, as well as open hardware and privacy protection. Bringing together financial institutions, technology companies, and digital asset industry representatives from around the world, the Festival will examine practical applications, market opportunities, and future developments in on-chain finance.

Institutional Arena to Bring Global Financial Leaders Together for Closed-Door Discussions

A major new addition to the 2027 Festival, the Institutional Arena will be held during the three-day event from April 19 to 21. Operating on a fully closed-door, invitation-only basis, it will bring together senior executives and key decision-makers from global banks, asset management firms, payment companies, institutional investors, and digital asset businesses. The program is designed to provide a more focused and specialized setting for institutional engagement, while offering dedicated venues for leading financial institutions to host their own closed-door events.

As a key addition to this year’s program, the Institutional Arena will feature a dedicated networking area for institutional participants. Through keynote presentations, closed-door roundtables, and thematic discussions, it will address issues of particular interest to financial institutions, examining business practices across different markets and opportunities for collaboration. The program will also create a more targeted environment for direct engagement among financial institutions and between these institutions and innovative companies across the industry.

Complementing the Festival’s broader industry discussions, the Institutional Arena will provide a dedicated setting for deeper dialogue on practical business priorities, facilitating cross-institutional collaboration and business connections between global financial institutions and the digital asset sector.

Four Editions of Global Industry Engagement

Since its launch in 2023, Hong Kong Web3 Festival has grown into an international platform connecting participants across digital assets, finance, and technology. Across its first four editions, the festival has attracted more than 150,000 attendees, featured over 1,600 speakers, hosted more than 500 exhibitors, and supported over 600 side events.

Building on four editions of engagement spanning technological innovation and financial applications, Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2027 will place OnChain Finance at the center of its program. With the introduction of the Institutional Arena, the Festival aims to strengthen connections between global financial institutions and the digital asset industry, bringing together forward-looking perspectives and practical developments in financial innovation.

Further details on the Festival agenda, speakers, and Institutional Arena arrangements will be announced in due course. Follow the Wanxiang Blockchain Labs official WeChat account and Hong Kong Web3 Festival’s official X account (@festival_web3) for the latest updates.

Partnership and Participation Opportunities

Sponsorship Opportunities: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027sponsorshipApply to Speak: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027speakerapplicationMedia & Community Partnerships: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027partnerSide Event Applications: https://hongkong.web3festival.org/2027sideeventContact: w3@blockchainlabs.org

About Wanxiang Blockchain Labs

Founded in 2015, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs (the “Labs”) is a non-profit research institution dedicated to blockchain technology research and development. It brings together experts from around the world to advance research, foster dialogue, and explore the development, applications, and strategic implications of blockchain technology. Through its research and initiatives, the Labs seeks to provide insights and guidance for entrepreneurs, inform regulatory discussions, and support the broader development of blockchain technology and its potential contributions to society and the economy.

Since its establishment, the Labs has built an international presence through initiatives including the annual Shanghai Blockchain Global Summit and Hong Kong Web3 Festival, as well as hackathons, developer programs, incubation initiatives, blockchain publications, research projects, lectures, and academic collaborations.

About HashKey Group (3887.HK)

HashKey Group (3887.HK) is a leading digital asset financial services group in Asia with a global footprint. Founded in 2018, we are building the next-generation global financial infrastructure to serve institutions, retail investors and blockchain ecosystem partners. We enable traditional institutions and blockchain projects to efficiently access global resources and achieve compliant expansion and growth for their products and businesses. The Group operates across four core pillars: Transaction Facilitation, On-Chain Services, Asset Management and RWA Tokenisation.

HashKey Group is committed to driving the large-scale adoption of blockchain technology and delivering dependable and accessible digital asset services to one billion users worldwide.

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