SK Telecom (SKT) announced on June 25 that it has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with KG Steel, a steel manufacturing company, and Conec, an automotive parts manufacturer, to conduct field testing of its AI agent based on its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model.
This collaboration marks the first application of SKT's AI foundation model in the manufacturing sector. Since April, SKT has been gathering high-quality data, including past process error and accident analysis reports, equipment manuals, and logs from KG Steel and Conec. Using this data, SKT has developed a demo version of a 'manufacturing-specialized AI agent' based on its proprietary AI foundation model, A.X K1.
In the second half of the year, the demo version of the 'manufacturing-specialized AI agent' will be tested at KG Steel's cold rolling line in its Dangjin plant, which produces coated steel sheets, and at Conec's casting and processing operations.
KG Steel and Conec will share more high-quality manufacturing process data with SKT in real time. In turn, SKT will enhance the performance and inference speed of the 'manufacturing-specialized AI agent' based on this data and feedback collected during the testing process.
The manufacturing data obtained during the testing phase will be utilized for training the currently developing A.X K2 model. After the testing is completed, SKT will consider commercializing and implementing the 'manufacturing-specialized AI agent' and may explore replacing the model with a subsequent series of its proprietary AI foundation models if necessary.
SKT has advanced to the second phase evaluation of its proprietary AI foundation model, which is being promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT. This evaluation is scheduled to take place in August.
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