AI NewsWaveNov. 4 AI Briefing: AMD's Seoul Event and Corporate AI Transformation
Key points
- Cooperation widens between domestic AI chips and global companies
- Companies keep unveiling AI agents and in-house platforms
- AI used for training data and communications protection
AMD signed an agreement on the 4th at an event in Seoul with FuriosaAI and MangoBoost to build heterogeneous AI infrastructure. iNews24 and AI Times reported that the companies plan to build demonstration infrastructure in Seoul next spring. AI Newspaper (인공지능신문) explained that AMD's CPU and GPU technology will be combined with Korean NPU and DPU technology.
LG AI Research received the National Intellectual Property Commission Chair Award for "EXAONE Nexus," which automatically analyzes copyright and privacy risks in AI training data. It was given at the Copyright Technology Awards of the "2026 International Copyright Technology Conference" hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. IT Chosun reported that the technology is already applied to the company's own AI model development and that it plans to expand supply to the global market.
Hyundai Steel said on the 4th that it has launched "Steel-X," a generative AI platform that turns internal documents and data into assets and provides integrated search, analysis and AI services. Steel & Metal News (철강금속신문) pointed out that employees can build their own AI agents for their work, and Digital Daily reported that it was introduced in cooperation with Hyundai AutoEver.
Snowflake released features to help enterprise AI agents run autonomously. Digital Today introduced a "business ontology" that manages business terms and metric definitions under a common standard, while Chosun Biz introduced an agent that works in the background and calls on the user only when approval is needed.
Lee Jong-won, head of the Humanoid Research Division at KIST, was selected as a recipient of the Korea Science and Technology Award for November. AI Newspaper (인공지능신문) reported that he developed a Korean AI humanoid that can carry objects of more than 20 kg while keeping its balance and moving, and that core components were built with domestic technology, raising energy efficiency more than twofold.
KT said on the 4th that it has merged its customer protection services against spam, smishing, voice phishing and more under the "Ansim 365" brand. Boannews, citing KT's explanation, reported that multimodal AI was applied for the first time in Korea, and Digital Daily reported that the service helps users check their protection records themselves.