LG unveils New AI Model 'EXAONE Deep'

LG AI's 'EXAONE Deep' marks a milestone in AI innovation, offering unparalleled reasoning capabilities and setting a new standard in the global AI landscape. 

SEOUL, South Korea, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- LG AI Research unveiled 'EXAONE Deep,' a globally focused reasoning AI model, as open source on the 18th. The release of 'EXAONE Deep' is significant as it proves the competitiveness of Korea's own 'Reasoning AI' in the global AI market. LG AI Research introduces EXAONE Deep by participating in NVIDIA's annual developer conference (GTC) held in San Jose, California, USA, from the 17th to the 21st local time.

• Opening the Era of 'Agentic AI' by Developing Reasoning AI, Setting and Verifying Hypotheses Independently

LG AI Research announced the transition to the 'Agentic AI' era by releasing its own advanced reasoning model, 'EXAONE Deep.' Agentic AI refers to an active AI capable of making autonomous decisions by independently formulating hypotheses and conducting inferences to verify them. To implement this, the development of 'Reasoning AI' beyond the existing 'Knowledge AI' is essential. Currently, among the few global companies developing their own reasoning AI with foundation models, 'EXAONE Deep' is Korea's first to achieve this milestone..

• The 32B (32 billion parameter) Model Achieves World-Class Performance with a remarkably small parameter size

EXAONE Deep-32B (32 billion parameters) demonstrated exceptional efficiency and achieved remarkable performance, operating at just 5% of a very large competitor model.. LG AI Research released various performance evaluation results on the global open-source AI platform Hugging Face, assessing the logical reasoning skills and problem-solving capabilities of three 'EXAONE Deep' models with different parameters.

'EXAONE Deep-32B' proved its excellence in solving complex mathematical and scientific problems. In particular, 'EXAONE Deep-32B', based on the EXAONE foundation model with strengths in Korean, recorded the highest score of 94.5 in the 2025 CSAT mathematics area and achieved the top grade in all elective subjects (probability and statistics, calculus, geometry). Also, it recorded 95.7 points in MATH-500, an index evaluating mathematical problem-solving capability.

'EXAONE Deep-32B' also achieved excellent performance in indicators evaluating doctoral-level scientific reasoning capabilities in physics, chemistry, and biology. It recorded 66.1 points in the GPQA diamond test, which evaluates scientific problem-solving ability, outperforming competition with reasoning AI models of similar parameter scale, and also showed competitive performance with 59.5 points in LiveCodeBench, which evaluates coding ability.

LG AI Research expects that 'EXAONE Deep' will be highly utilized not only in professional fields required by industries in the future but also in scientific research and education fields such as physics and chemistry by showing high performance in evaluation indicators of specialized fields such as mathematics, science, and coding.

'EXAONE Deep-32B' was recognized for its technological competitiveness by being listed on the 'Notable AI Models' list selected by the US non-profit AI research organization Epoch AI with its open-source release.

• LG's AI Technology Maintains Overwhelming Performance While Significantly Reducing Model Size

LG AI Research also released the lightweight model 'EXAONE Deep-7.8B' and the on-device model 'EXAONE Deep-2.4B' developed with 'EXAONE Deep-32B' as open source. The lightweight model maintains up to 95% of the 32B's performance despite being 24% of its size, and the on-device model has 86% of the performance despite being 7.5% of its size, possessing both high economic efficiency and practicality.

An official from LG AI Research said, "We announced EXAONE Deep about a month after attending the domestic AI industry competitiveness diagnosis and inspection meeting held at the National Artificial Intelligence Committee in February and foreshadowing the open-source release of a DeepSeek R1-level model soon," and added, "The core of LG's AI technology is maintaining performance while significantly reducing model size."

In fact, the performance of the lightweight model 7.8B exceeded that of other leading lightweight models, and the 2.4B on-device model also showed world-class results in performance comparisons with equivalent models.

In particular, the on-device model has strengths in terms of security and personal information protection by safely processing data within the device without connecting to an external server. LG AI Research anticipates on-device models to rapidly spread in various industries such as smartphones, automobiles, and robots.

LG AI Research plans to lead the on-device AI market by enhancing models with LG affiliates such as LG Electronics and LG U+.

Meanwhile, Koo Kwang-mo, Chairman and CEO of LG Group emphasized in his New Year's address this year, "The current LG has been built by accumulating many moments of challenging new areas and creating unprecedented value," and added, "We will create a new lifestyle where people use cutting-edge technologies such as AI conveniently in their daily lives, allowing them to spend their precious time on more enjoyable and meaningful tasks."

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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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