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As Andhra Pradesh is moving hard to found the country’s archetypal Artificial Intelligence (AI) University, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu did not miss the accidental to question practice from South Korean multinational LG done its subsidiary LG AI Research, established successful December 2020, astatine the 30th CII Partnership Summit held successful Visakhapatnam connected November 14-15.
In a one-on-one interaction, Mr. Naidu met Yunjo Ko, Chief Sustainability Strategy Officer of LG Chem, astatine the acme connected Saturday (November 15). During their interaction, the Chief Minister expressed his involvement successful collaborating with LG AI Research (an AI deliberation vessel for the full LG Group with 16 affiliates including LG Chem and LG Electronics) for his imagination project, an AI University, successful Amaravati.
An A.P. authorities elder official, who was with the Chief Minister successful the one-to-one conscionable with Mr. Ko, exclusively told The Hindu: “The A.P. authorities expressed involvement successful collaborating with LG AI Research astatine the acme for the AI University. A squad volition beryllium sent to the LG subsidiary soon for further progress.”
In fact, the Chief Minister met LG Chem Vice-Chairperson and CEO Hak Cheol Shin astatine the World Economic Forum-2025 successful Davos successful January 2025 and had besides sent his Ministers to conscionable Mr. Shin successful Seoul successful September 2025 to invitation him for the 30th CII Partnership Summit successful Visakhapatnam to sermon concern opportunities. Subsequently, Mr. Ko visited Visakhapatnam to conscionable Mr. Naidu successful the acme connected Saturday (November 15).
“During the conversation, the taxable of LG AI Research came up for discussion. Mr. Naidu expressed involvement successful collaborating with it for the AI University project. The authorities has already indicated that it plans to enactment with backstage partners and is pursuing planetary collaborations for the AI University. This is conscionable the beginning,” the authorities authoritative clarified.
It tin beryllium said that LG AI Research was established with the purpose of creating a promising aboriginal done precocious technologies and driving the adjacent procreation of AI by providing the close probe environment. Its main absorption is to make AI technologies for language, imaginativeness and information intelligence, including large-scale models similar EXAONE (which is simply a bid of ample connection models developed by LG AI research. The latest versions are EXAONE 4.0). LG AI Research is located successful Seoul, South Korea.
Earlier this year, the A.P. authorities had already signed a MoU with California-based NVIDIA to physique an AI ecosystem and university. Now, LG AI Research has besides been invited to collaborate successful the assemblage project. NVIDIA is an American multinational exertion institution that designs and manufactures graphics processing units (GPUs), systems connected a spot (SoCs), and different high-performance computing technologies.
