K-EXAONE 2.5

LG AI Research unveiled K-EXAONE 2.5, a retrained version of its sovereign-AI model, and made its API free for everyone.

Unveiled at NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026 on Nov 9. K-EXAONE 2.5 is a technology-validation model: extra training applied to the second model of Korea's sovereign AI project, released in August. LG says performance across 24 internal metrics rose more than 70% in eight weeks. Its published agentic scores put it close to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM-5.3: 74.6 on AutomationBench, 77.3 on Claw-Eval, 78.0 on BrowseComp and 59.2 on SWE-Bench Pro (ahead of DeepSeek's 58.4, behind GLM's 64.0). These are LG's own evaluations. The API is free to developers, startups, businesses and researchers from Nov 9 through LG's platform. LG says it aims to finish a frontier-level third-generation EXAONE model by January.

Status

Released

Date

Nov 9, 2026 (free API)

Maker

LG AI Research

Type

AI model

Price

Free API (LG AI Research platform)

Categories

AI

Sources

• The Asia Business Daily

Launch dates can change. Check the sources for the latest. Last reviewed Nov 10, 2026.