Overview
- The Ministry of Science and ICT named a Motif Technologies–led consortium, including KAIST and Trillion Labs, as the fourth contender in its foundation‑model program.
- Officials cited Motif’s independently designed architecture and competitive results despite limited domestic data.
- SK Telecom, LG AI Research, Upstage and Motif will receive government compute, data access and other assistance as they advance to the next stage.
- Motif says it plans a reasoning‑focused large language model with 300 billion parameters built on domestically developed technology.
- A second‑round review in August will narrow the field to three, with two final recipients of state support to be selected by year‑end.