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LG AI Research offers free API access to K-Exaone 2.5 model

LG AI Research has made its K-Exaone 2.5 model accessible via a free API, announced at NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026. This model, a technology verification step towards a third-generation version, features 750 billion total parameters and a 512,000-token context window, supporting Korean and English text. The API is designed to be OpenAI-compatible, allowing developers to integrate it into their services with minimal code changes. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with a new, large-context Korean/English model via an OpenAI-compatible API, potentially accelerating service development.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card and API details. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LG AI Research offers free API access to K-Exaone 2.5 model

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Frontier-lab model release with system card and API details. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Paul Lovelace ·

    LG Just Opened Its Frontier Model's API for Free: What K-Exaone 2.5 Actually Gives Developers

    <p><em>Nothing here is sponsored — no affiliate links on this page. This breaking article is not the daily buyer-intent post. Facts below come from the sources listed at the end, checked 9 November 2026. We have not tested K-Exaone 2.5 hands-on, and nothing here is a hands-on fin…