Overview
- The Ministry of Science and ICT announced Tuesday that Motif Technologies finished last in the second-round evaluation and was knocked out of the government’s ‘AI for All’ sovereign-AI competition.
- Reports agree that three teams advance but conflict on the exact lineup, with some sources naming KT, SK Telecom and Upstage and others naming LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage.
- The ministry changed the evaluation toward industrial applicability and real-world usability, including tests with 200 citizen evaluators, and said those factors determined Motif’s elimination.
- Officials will increase computing support for the surviving teams by expanding allocations of NVIDIA B200 GPUs and plan to reduce the field to two finalists by late 2026 or early 2027.
- The project ties government support to use rules that require domestic foundation models for at least half of developers’ systems and at least 30 percent cross-use by firms with in-house models, part of a wider push to deliver a free national AI service for all citizens.