The Korea Times
LG held a two-day hackathon event, drawing 94 young participants to develop optimized versions of the company’s EXAONE large language model as part of its broader push into advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The event, “LG Aimers Hackathon,” was held at LG Inhwawon training center in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, over the weekend and was part of LG Aimers, the group’s flagship youth AI talent development initiative. Since its launch in the second half of 2022, the program has trained more than 20,000 young people and become Korea’s largest youth AI education effort. LG said it aims to develop a cumulative total of at least 50,000 young AI professionals by 2030. The 94 participants were chosen from 2,339 applicants, having advanced through online coursework and a qualifying round. They were tasked to develop lightweight versions of EXAONE, a large language model developed by LG AI Research. LLM lightweighting is an optimization technique that reduces model size and improves inference speed while preserving performance and accuracy — a key technology for running A
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