Artificial Analysis 联合创始人在「LG AI Talk Concert 2026」上建议韩国将 AGI 开发纳入国家 AI 愿景，属会议观点评论，无公司级增量事实

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George Cameron (left), co-founder of Artificial Analysis, and Lee Hong-lak, co-head of the LG AI Research Institute, hold a discussion at the "LG AI Talk Concert 2026" held at LG Science Park in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, on Feb. 14. Photo courtesy of LG
South Korea needs to enter the race to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI), following the lead of global tech giants, if it wants to secure a place among the world's top three AI powers, a global AI evaluation firm said.
George Cameron, co-founder and chief product officer of Artificial Analysis, said Korea should include AGI development in its national AI vision, as global tech companies have done. "You need that baseline intelligence of AGI to build the capability to apply AI in the field," Cameron said on the 14th at LG AI Research's "LG AI Talk Concert 2026," held at LG Science Park in Seoul's Gangseo district, where he appeared as a special guest.
Artificial Analysis is an internationally recognized AI model analysis and evaluation firm. It scores and ranks frontier models from major tech companies and publishes the results for developers worldwide. Korean AI developers, including LG AI Research, cite the firm's evaluations when promoting the performance of their own models.
Cameron said Korea should strengthen its technical capabilities in specific use cases such as manufacturing, but added that doing so requires developing AGI alongside those efforts rather than concentrating on a handful of areas. Korean companies trail the United States and China in AI infrastructure, data and budget, and have instead focused on developing manufacturing-specific models that maximize synergies with industry, such as physical AI. In fields including science and finance, they have also pursued a strategy of improving cost efficiency through smaller models trained intensively on specialized knowledge.
Cameron credited that strategy with lifting Korea to third place among AI nations behind the United States and China, but said sustaining that competitiveness over the medium to long term will ultimately require proprietary AGI technology. LG AI Research, for example, has developed models such as EXAONE OmniInspect for manufacturing, EXAONE Discovery for materials analysis and EXAONE Business Intelligence for finance — but the performance of all of them depends on EXAONE, its general-purpose model.
Lee Hong-lak, co-head of LG AI Research, said the institute is aiming for expert-specialized AI but that succeeding at it requires building a sufficiently capable model and combining it with domain knowledge. He said the institute would continue advancing its EXAONE foundation model toward a level comparable to AGI.
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Kim Yoon-soo
for Seoul Economic Daily.
AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.
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