"Advanced AI to Be Installed in Humanoids... Successor to LG's EXAONE to Be Unveiled in First Half of the Year" [MWC 2026]
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- 2026-03-02 08:00:00
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- 2026-03-02 08:00:00
LG Corporation will unveil Exaone 4.5, the next version of its in-house AI model EXAONE, in the first half of this year. The company plans to embed a more advanced EXAONE vision-language model (VLM) in humanoid robots in earnest, aiming to secure leadership in physical AI technologies.
On the 1st (local time), Lim Woo-hyung, co-head of LG AI Research, said at a briefing held one day before the opening of the world’s largest mobile communications exhibition, Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, "With expanded modalities, Exaone 4.5 will become the highest-performing open-weight model of its size in the world." He added, "It will be another opportunity to reaffirm LG’s technological prowess, having developed Korea’s first multimodal AI model."
Starting with Exaone 4.5, LG Corporation expects that the increasingly sophisticated EXAONE VLM technology will serve as the brain of KAPEX, a Korean-style humanoid robot, and become a core technology ushering in the era of physical AI. Lim explained, "The AI that LG pursues is not about competing over how intelligent it is, but about creating a partner that helps people and solves problems in the real world." He continued, "We will focus on building AI that creates tangible value in the physical world, going beyond the stage of AX."
As K-EXAONE enters its completion phase next year, LG Uplus Corp. plans to launch operation of the Seoul metropolitan area’s largest AI data center (AIDC) in Paju, capable of accommodating up to 120,000 Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Lee Sang-yeop, CTO of LG Uplus Corp., noted, "To realize AI that can truly help in the real world, powerful infrastructure and connectivity technologies are essential." He added, "We are proceeding without a hitch to ensure we can deliver the best possible experience with world-class AI performance."