LG AI Research wins Presidential Council on Intellectual Property Chairperson’s Award for ‘EXAONE Nexus’

[Financial News] LG AI Research has received the Chairperson’s Award from the Presidential Council on Intellectual Property for EXAONE Nexus, which automatically analyzes the risk of copyright infringement in AI training data. The institute plans to supply the technology, which it is using to develop its own AI models, to overseas big tech companies and law firms as well.
LG AI Research said on the 4th that it had won an award for developing EXAONE Nexus at the Copyright Technology Awards of the 2026 International Copyright Technology Conference (ICOTEC), hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
EXAONE Nexus is an AI agent that reviews large datasets used to train AI and identifies legal risks related to copyright, licensing and personal information. According to LG AI Research, when analyzing a single dataset, EXAONE Nexus worked 45 times as fast as legal experts and was 26% more accurate. Its analysis costs were about one-thousandth of those of existing methods.
LG AI Research incorporated regulations in major countries, including Korea’s Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI Basic Act) and the European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act, into its assessment criteria. It also worked with around 40 lawyers from major law firms in Korea and abroad to verify the legal validity of its analysis results. In the process, it made risk assessment results for around 20,000 public datasets available to academia and the research community. Researchers can also consult the published results before using each dataset to train AI.
LG AI Research has made validation using EXAONE Nexus mandatory for all AI models it develops in-house. This applies to every stage, from data collection and cleaning to model development and service deployment.
LG AI Research plans to gradually expand supply in overseas markets with strong demand for compliance, including among global big tech firms and law firms. Hwayoung Lee, head of AI business development at LG AI Research, said, “Amid the rapid advancement of AI technology, securing social trust is a core competitive advantage for companies,” adding, “LG will always put people at the center of technology and continue to introduce AI technologies that combine high reliability with outstanding performance.”
Meanwhile, LG AI Research has enhanced its invention disclosure process for research achievements, such as papers and inventions, to protect its intellectual property. Since its establishment in 2020, it has filed a total of 1,131 patent applications: 537 in Korea and 594 overseas. Yu Gyeong-jae, LG AI Research’s IP strategy lead, received the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Award at the ICT Patent Management Awards on the 2nd for his contributions to establishing this system.
This is also seen as being in line with LG’s approach to compliance management. Koo Kwang-mo, representative director of LG Corp., has emphasized, “A shift in mindset is needed so that compliance is seen as core infrastructure for a company’s growth and development,” adding, “We will continue to enhance LG’s compliance system so that it can reflect changes in the times and society in a timely manner.”



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