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LG released new version of generative AI, EXAONE 3.5

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– Following EXAONE 3.0 in August, EXAONE 3.5 version was released as open source on the 9th of this month, fostering an open AI research ecosystem and is expected to accelerate the pace of innovation

– Starting official release of ChatEXAONE, enterprise AI agent service, making AI a part of everyday life

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Four months after unveiling EXAONE 3.0 in August, LG AI Research has open-sourced its latest AI model, EXAONE 3.5, further enhancing its performance.

Top performance among global open source AI models in 20 benchmarks, including real-world usability, long text processing, coding, and math. 

Unlike previous EXAONE 3.0, LG AI Research will open source all three models, an ultra-lightweight model for on-device use (2.4 billion parameters), a lightweight model for general purpose (7.8 billion parameters), and a high-performance model for specialized application (32 billion parameters).

To reduce the hallucination and to increase the accuracy and reliability of answers, LG AI Research has advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, which generates answers based on real-time web search results or uploaded documents, and Multi-step Reasoning, which allows AI to deconstruct user’s inquiry step-by-step to develop logical reasoning.

Depending on the length of sentence inputs, EXAONE 3.5 can process long texts, roughly equivalent to around 100 pages at a time.

LG AI Research also published a technical report on the performance evaluation of the model, demonstrating confidence in the technology’s ability to compete on a global scale.

According to a technical report released by LG AI Research, EXAONE 3.5 is the world’s best class in real-world usability, long text processing, coding, and math.

LG AI Research disclosed both individual scores for the 20 benchmarks it used to evaluate performance and the average scores.

All three models, from on-device to high-performance, can be used for research purposes, and anyone can check and validate the models.

LG AI Research expects the open-source release to promote an open AI research ecosystem and increase the pace of innovation.

‘As AI technology becomes a key strategic asset for each country, developing AI models with our own technology is meaningful in contributing to enhancing national AI competitiveness,’ said an official from LG AI Research.

LG employees can use AI agent, real-time web, and document-based question-and-answer capabilities without any data leakage or security issues

LG AI Research has officially launched its enterprise AI agent, ChatEXAONE for its employees, starting the ‘era of everyday AI’.

From the 9th of this month, LG employees can sign up and start using ChatEXAONE in their work immediately.

Based on the new EXAONE 3.5 model, ChatEXAONE applies information encryption and privacy protection technology so that employees can use it in their work without worrying about leaking internal data within the company’s security environment.

LG AI Research expects ChatEXAONE to help employees increase their work productivity and efficiency, from real-time web information search to document summarization, translation, report writing, data analysis, and coding.

With the application of EXAONE 3.5 to ChatEXAONE, LG AI Research has enhanced its performance and added ‘Deep’ and ‘Dive’ functions.

‘Deep’ is a feature that enables ChatEXAONE to analyze and infer multiple questions in stages and provide a comprehensive answer when a complex question is asked, and can be used when you want accurate and in-depth report-level results.

‘Dive’ is a feature that allows you to select a search scope such as general, global, academic, and YouTube to get answers based on the exact source according to your purpose.

ChatEXAONE recommends 133 job-specific prompts based 14 different job functions and provides personalized answers, and employees can set their interests according to their use.

LG AI Research plans to continue to expand the number of jobs and job categories based on employee feedback.

ChatEXAONE currently supports 32,000 tokens that can process 20,000 words in Korean (23,000 English words) simultaneously, enabling long-form questions and answers, and plans to expand to 128,000 tokens in the first half of next year.

Four years on, LG AI Research accelerates innovation, expands AI ecosystem and delivers tangible results

LG AI Research, the AI think tank for LG Group, which celebrated its fourth anniversary on 7 December 2020, is preparing for the beyond of EXAONE 3.5 already.

LG AI Research has researched on Large Action Model (LAM) that plans and acts on its own and plans to develop an AI agent based on the technology in 2025.  

‘The recent advancement of generative AI models has accelerated, and it is important to upgrade them quickly,’ said Bae Kyunghoon, the president of LG AI Research. ‘We will speed up the pace of innovation and develop them into frontier models that represent Korea, with the goal of artificial super intelligence that can be applied to real-world industries.’

LG AI Research has strengthened its collaborations with AWS, Dell Technologies, Elsevier, Google Cloud, Intel, Jackson Laboratory, NVIDIA, Parsons School of Design, UiPath, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre(UPMC), University of Toronto and others to expand the ecosystem to create real-world outcomes with EXAONE and other AI technologies.

Meanwhile, LG has been accelerating its AI transformation for the past four years, centered on the LG AI Research Institute, which Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of LG Group has been working on as a future business, and all affiliates are actively working to preempt future technologies and recruit talent.

For more information, visit https://www.lgresearch.ai/blog/view?seq=507

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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KIM Young Min
LG AI Research
Email: youngmin.kim@lgresearch.ai 

CHAE Ok
LG AI Research
Email: ok.chae@lgresearch.ai 

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BinBase Expands 2026 BIN Dataset with Instant Payout Intelligence for iGaming, Gambling, and Cross-Border Transfers

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BinBase updates its 2026 dataset with specialized Fast Funds, Visa Direct, and Mastercard MoneySend indicators to help iGaming operators and payout platforms execute seamless, instant card disbursements.

MIAMI, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — BinBase, a global provider of payment routing intelligence and card issuing data, has introduced specialized instant payout indicators as part of its upgraded 2026 BIN Database. Tailored for iGaming operators, online gambling platforms, crypto-to-fiat ramps, and payout aggregators, the updated dataset helps platform engineers streamline real-time card disbursements and Push-to-Card (P2C) transactions.

In high-velocity sectors such as online betting and gaming, instantaneous player payouts are a primary driver of customer retention. However, executing Push-to-Card transactions through protocols like Visa Direct and Mastercard MoneySend requires knowing whether the receiving card issuer supports Fast Funds for specific merchant category codes (MCCs). Attempting instant payouts on non-eligible cards leads to declined transactions, elevated processing fees, and poor user experiences.

The 2026 BinBase release solves this operational bottleneck by delivering dedicated attributes for real-time fund disbursements:

Fast Funds Eligibility: Granular indicators identifying domestic and cross-border Fast Funds support across global Visa and Mastercard ranges.Online Gambling Fast Funds (OG FF): Dedicated flags specifically identifying card ranges authorized to receive real-time gambling and betting payouts.Mastercard MoneySend & Visa Direct Indicators: Precise protocol compatibility markers (MS Ind & MT Ind) ensuring push transactions are routed only to eligible recipient cards.Direct Debit & Pull-Funds Support: Indicators for recurring collections and account-funding transactions.

“Player payouts in iGaming cannot wait for standard 2-to-3-day ACH settlements,” said a spokesperson for Damiko Inc. “By embedding our Fast Funds and Gambling FF flags into their payment engines, operators can instantly validate recipient cards before initiating a transfer, guaranteeing high success rates and instant liquidity for their users.”

Fintech engineers and payout architects can examine the full 29-field database schema and access a free 2026 sample dataset on GitHub.

To explore commercial licensing, bulk database downloads, or custom data feeds, visit BinBase at https://binbase.com.

About Damiko Inc

Damiko Inc is a US-based fintech data provider specializing in card issuer analytics, payment routing data, and global BIN database solutions. Operating through its flagship product, BinBase.com, the company supplies high-precision transaction intelligence to help merchants and payment facilitators worldwide optimize approval rates and mitigate processing fees.

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Walnut Coding’s Young Coders Serve as ‘Instructors’ at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp

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Ages 8 and 15, students showcase AI-era project-building skills from concept to working application

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Walnut Coding (the “Company”), a leading online platform for youth coding education, said two of its students – ages 8 and 15 – have joined the “instructor” lineup at Huawei Cloud Developer Training Camp, making them among the youngest “instructors” in the program’s history. The Company cites the pair as a prime example of how young learners can combine coding fundamentals with AI tools to turn ideas into working applications.

The two students, Bolin Du, 8, and Peiqi Gao, 15, built working applications using Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, then presented the projects to the training camp themselves – walking the audience through their design choices, technical builds, and debugging process.

The move lands at a moment when AI coding tools are forcing a rethink across the education sector. Tools that can generate functioning code from a plain-language prompt have undercut the traditional argument for teaching children to program – that they need the skill to build things themselves. Walnut Coding’s answer is that the more valuable skill now is judgment – knowing what problem to solve, breaking it into parts, and determining whether an AI’s output actually works.

Gao built a travel-planning application that generates routes, itineraries, and recommendations based on user input, handling the project end to end, from requirements and design through coding and debugging. Du, the younger of the two, built an interactive calendar application, using HTML for page structure, CSS for visual design, and JavaScript for interactive features. Both students then took on an instructor’s role at the camp, presenting their project goals and technical implementation to the audience – a step Walnut Coding says separated the work from a typical classroom assignment.

These were not classroom exercises but working projects, built and presented inside a professional developer-training environment. The experience demanded more from both students than simply producing something functional – they needed to articulate their reasoning, defend technical choices, and refine the final result under scrutiny. Their participation signals a broader shift underway in what youth coding education can deliver.

AI is making code generation easier, but it is also redrawing which skills actually matter. A student who relies only on one-click generation may get a rough prototype quickly, but still struggle to spot logical flaws, judge whether the output is reliable, or turn an abstract idea into a product that actually works. Students with programming foundations, by contrast, are better positioned to define requirements, evaluate what the AI produces, correct its errors, and treat the technology as a tool rather than a shortcut to lean on.

“AI can help children generate code faster, but it cannot decide for them what problem they should solve, nor can it make the final judgment about whether the result is truly effective,” said Pengxuan Zeng, founder and CEO of Walnut Coding. “What these two students demonstrated is not just coding technique, but the ability to define needs, break down tasks, verify outcomes, and turn an idea into a working product. That is why we believe young people still need to learn programming in the AI era.”

Walnut Coding structures its courses around that thesis, pairing student-led project work with teaching-assistant guidance and AI-assisted support. According to the Company, this data is continuously fed back into its systems to refine the personalization of AI-assisted feedback — a closed-loop process linking teaching, practice, feedback, and curriculum development.

The Company frames the payoffs less around producing professional software engineers than around a broader form of literacy. As AI continues to reshape how tasks get done, the ability to understand the technology, structure problems clearly and collaborate effectively with intelligent tools may prove one of the most durable skills a young learner can develop.

Walnut Coding says it plans to keep expanding opportunities for students to build practical projects, partner with industry technology platforms such as Huawei Cloud, and develop the core capabilities needed to build with technology in the AI era.

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MOREH Showcases High-Performance LLM Inference on AMD GPUs at AMD Advancing AI 2026

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Moreh, an AI infrastructure software company, led by CEO Gangwon Jo, participated in AMD Advancing AI 2026, AMD’s flagship annual AI event held in San Francisco on July 22–23 (local time), where it demonstrated its distributed inference solution, the MoAI Inference Framework, running on AMD GPUs.

At the event, Moreh presented a live demonstration of the GLM-5.1 large language model (LLM) powered by the MoAI Inference Framework on a system equipped with 32 AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs across four nodes. Visitors experienced the chatbot firsthand, evaluating its response speed and service quality while observing performance across a range of real-world use cases.

Unlike conventional demonstrations that simply run an AI model, Moreh’s showcase displayed key inference service metrics in real time, including GPU utilization, Tokens Per Second (TPS), Time To First Token (TTFT), and Time Per Output Token (TPOT). This enabled attendees to directly verify both inference performance and GPU resource efficiency in a production-like service environment.

Global AI industry leaders and enterprise customers attending the event expressed strong interest in the system’s fast response times and stable performance. In particular, the live deployment of the computationally demanding GLM-5.1 model on AMD GPUs at production-grade service levels received positive feedback from visitors.

Moreh’s MoAI Inference Framework is widely recognized as the world’s first commercially deployed distributed inference solution built for the AMD ecosystem. Its distributed inference and heterogeneous computing technologies are designed to dramatically reduce AI service costs, enabling broader adoption of AI worldwide. The technology addresses one of the industry’s biggest challenges-the rapidly rising infrastructure and service costs caused by increasingly larger AI models-by delivering a more efficient inference infrastructure.

Moreh CEO Gangwon Jo stated, “This event provided an opportunity for global customers to verify firsthand that top-tier inference performance can be achieved on AMD GPU environments,” and added “We will continue advancing our AI infrastructure software so enterprises can operate AI services as efficiently as possible, regardless of the underlying GPU platform.”

Moreh develops its own AI infrastructure engine and has expanded its end-to-end AI capabilities through its foundation LLM subsidiary, Motif Technologies, covering both AI infrastructure and foundation models. The company is also strengthening its presence in the global AI market through strategic partnerships with leading technology companies, including AMD and Tenstorrent.

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