Singapore – LG AI Research has unveiled that it has recently expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to help establish the firm’s latest family of EXAONE 3.0 generative AI models and enterprise multimodal AI agent, ChatEXAONE.
These solutions are trained and developed on an AI-optimised infrastructure using a combination of Google’s Cloud TPUs and GPUs available through Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer.
As part of the agreement, the partnership allowed LG to provide breakthrough levels of scalability and performance despite the massive computational demands required for complex models.
Google’s best-in-class AI accelerators have in fact enabled LG to effectively shorten the time required for AI model training and develop a more efficient model training process.
This was made possible through its use of Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer, which resulted in reduced inference processing time by 56%, memory usage by 35%, and operating costs by 72% with EXAONE 3.0 7.8B compared to the previous model.
Recognising security as a crucial factor, LG also chose to develop ChatEXAONE with Google Cloud due to its built-in data governance and data privacy controls and robust AI data principles. LG’s corporate databases further provide the data foundation, while the entire operation is managed through Google Cloud’s efficient MLOps pipeline.
Hwayoung (Edward) Lee, lead of AI Biz Dev and DX Group at the LG AI Research, said, “EXAONE 3.0 has been trained on 60 million pieces of specialised data sets, 350 million images, patents, software codes, mathematics, and chemistry. Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer has been instrumental in achieving LG AI Research’s goals of AI model lightweight technology and cost efficiency.”
Ki-sung Chi, country director at Google Cloud Korea, also commented, “Our collaboration with LG AI Research exemplifies the power of partnership in pushing the boundaries of AI innovation. By providing LG with our cutting-edge AI infrastructure, we’re not only accelerating their groundbreaking work but also shaping the future of industries worldwide.”
Moving forward in their collaboration, the firm has also expressed its plans to offer EXAONE 3.0 on the Google Cloud Marketplace and explore the creation of developer-friendly APIs to cater to the increasing demand for enterprise AI agents.
The two companies previously collaborated to deliver AI innovation to support real-world industrial applications. LG AI Research worked closely with Google Cloud in December 2021 to develop EXAONE 1.0, Korea’s first bilingual and multimodal generative AI model, and in July 2023 on EXAONE 2.0.
