K-EXAONE 2.5: LG opens free API access to its 750B sovereign model
LG AI Research opened free API access to K-EXAONE 2.5, a 750B-parameter Korean and English model with a 512K-token context window.
Why it matters
A sovereign-scale 750B model free to use through an OpenAI-compatible API — LG's first public opening of its flagship, which it says matches DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 on agentic benchmarks.
What you could build with it
A small team building Korean-language customer support could prototype a bilingual support agent on the free API, routing Korean queries to K-EXAONE 2.5 and measuring resolution quality against their current model before committing to a paid tier.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge — the free API opened today; no independent benchmarks or third-party usage exist yet, and LG has not said how long the free period lasts.
Built with K-EXAONE 2.5
- LG AI Research Opens Free API Access to Its K-EXAONE 2.5 Modelunite.ai · Coverage of the Nov 9 announcement: 750B parameters with 31B active, OpenAI-compatible endpoint, free during the validation period.
- LG opens K-EXAONE 2.5 API free for developersspectrumweb.co · Reports the NVIDIA AI Day Seoul announcement and the model's claimed parity with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 on agentic benchmarks.
- LG AI Research opens free K-EXAONE 2.5 API: 750B total, 31B active, 512K contextarticle · Spec rundown with vendor-reported scores: 59.2 on SWE-Bench Pro, 78.0 on BrowseComp, 74.6 on AutomationBench.
- LG AI Research opens K-Exaone 2.5 API for freearticle · Korea Herald report on the NVIDIA AI Day Seoul announcement and LG plans for a frontier-level EXAONE by January 2027.
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