SK Telecom has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of National Defence (MND) on “Applying the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT)’s Sovereign AI Foundation Model to Defence Sector” to accelerate defence AI transformation (AX).
The agreement marks the first application of MSIT’s Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project in the defence sector. The initiative represents a public-private-military collaboration aimed at expanding the AI ecosystem and strengthening the nation’s AI competitiveness. The signing ceremony was held at SKT’s headquarters in Seoul with the attendance of Kim Myung-gook, Head of Industrial AI Office at SKT, and Jeon Joon-boem, Director General of the Defence AI Planning Bureau at MND.
Under the MOU, SKT and MND will cooperate on developing and demonstrating defence specialised AI models based on the Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project; collecting and utilising publicly available defence data; and utilising GPUs provided as part of MSIT’s National AI Project. This partnership is expected to improve the efficiency of defence administrative operations.
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