South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth

Yeah, let's change nothing about how we make it impossible or incredibly unattractive for young people to have kids, while also not allowing immigration and instead do... checks notes something with AI

"A grand transformation into AI is the only way out of growth declines resulting from a population shock," the ministry said in a statement, referring to South Korea's record low birthrate.

The funny bit is how "AI companions" are one of the most profitable uses of AI so far . See how THAT increases a country's birthrate.

Lol

"That's a bold strategy Cotton, let's see if that works out for them."

LG's recent Exaone release is a pretty awesome local model for the size. A little deep-fried and repetitive, but great for code and stuff, which is especially notable since most decent models tend to only be good at Mandarin Chinese and English.

...Except they slapped an insane license on it. Basically you sign away your life away even looking at it: https://huggingface.co/LGAI-EXAONE/EXAONE-4.0-32B/blob/main/LICENSE

That is not the precedent. Many 32B class (aka 16GB-24GB VRAM GPU) models are Apache licensed. Hence, the ML tinkerer community has pretty much forgotten about it.

Good luck suckers. Easy mark, easy money.