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LG Corp

003550.KS

Foundation Models

South Korean industrial holding company whose AI-research subsidiary, LG AI Research, builds the EXAONE foundation-model family used across LG Electronics, LG Chem and LG's other operating companies.

Total funding—

Market cap$13.4B

Employees—

Founded1947

HeadquartersSeoul, South Korea

StatusPublic

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• K-EXAONE 2.0 Model API Sold on its own

  LG AI Research's 750-billion-parameter foundation model, released under Apache 2.0 for unrestricted commercial use and published on Hugging Face -- the third-phase, largest release of LG's EXAONE/K-EXAONE family, more than triple the scale of the prior 236B-parameter model.

Closest alternatives 3

DDeepSeekPrivate · $50BK-EXAONE 2.0's own launch benchmarks are directly compared against DeepSeek V4 Pro Max.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorBuild on a hosted model APICompareZZ.ai (Zhipu AI)Public · $58.6BK-EXAONE 2.0's launch benchmarks directly compare against Zhipu's GLM-5.1, both API-served frontier LLMs.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandSourced competitorBuild on a hosted model APICompareAAlibabaPublic · $273.4BLG's own K-EXAONE 2.0 launch benchmarks explicitly compare against Alibaba's Qwen3.5, both API-served frontier LLMs.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleSourced competitorBuild on a hosted model APICompare

Similar products 25

How this list is ranked ↗

GG42Private · $2.3B raisedK-EXAONE 2.0 and Jais both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareAAAleph AlphaPrivate · $500M raisedK-EXAONE 2.0 and Pharia-1-LLM both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompare0101.AIPrivateK-EXAONE 2.0 and Yi both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaichuanPrivate · $2.8BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Baichuan Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareUUpstagePrivate · $958.8MK-EXAONE 2.0 and Solar LLMs both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareDDecartPrivate · $4BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Cogito both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareALAI21 LabsPrivate · $1.4BK-EXAONE 2.0 and AI21 Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BK-EXAONE 2.0 and StepFun Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenRouterPrivate · $1.3BK-EXAONE 2.0 and OpenRouter both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scaleCompareMPMeta PlatformsPublic · $1.5TK-EXAONE 2.0 and Meta Model API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareMAMoonshot AIPrivate · $35BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Kimi Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TK-EXAONE 2.0 and Gemini API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; larger scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareBFBlack Forest LabsPrivate · $3.3BK-EXAONE 2.0 and FLUX API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).Shared product typeSmaller scaleCompareSAStability AIPrivate · $495.9MK-EXAONE 2.0 and Stability AI Platform API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; smaller scale (private).Shared product typeSmaller scaleCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BK-EXAONE 2.0 and MiniMax Open Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareCCoherePrivate · $7BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Cohere Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Mistral AI Studio both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareNRNous ResearchPrivate · $70M raisedK-EXAONE 2.0 and Nous Portal both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private); ships AI agent, API service and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 2 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareKKuaishouPublic · $18.6BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Kling AI Developer API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareAAnthropicPrivate · $965BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Claude API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; larger scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedK-EXAONE 2.0 and Sarvam AI Platform both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (private).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareBBaiduPublic · $31.6BK-EXAONE 2.0 and Baidu Qianfan both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; same layer and the same scale band (mid-cap).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale bandCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)K-EXAONE 2.0 and xAI API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareSSenseTimePublic · $7.7BK-EXAONE 2.0 and SenseNova both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; similar scale (public).2 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareOOpenAIPrivate · $852BK-EXAONE 2.0 and OpenAI API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; larger scale (private).1 of 2 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompare

Closest alternatives are pairs a vendor page itself compares. Similar products are matched from what each product does; nothing in that group is asserted as a rivalry.

Sources

Market cap

Third-party database · 28 Aug 2026

Market capitalisation 18.504T KRW (2026-08-14 reading), stockanalysis.com, converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD (2026-08-28).

Founded

Wikipedia · 29 Aug 2026

Founded 1947 as Lak-Hui Chemical Industrial Corp.

Revenue (TTM)

Regulatory filing · 14 Aug 2026

TTM revenue recomputed after LG Corp's H1 2026 half-year report (filed 2026-08-14, DART rcpNo 20260814002972): H1 2026 KRW 3,940,245M + FY2025 KRW 7,252,547M - H1 2025 KRW 3,733,846M = KRW 7,458,946M TTM. Converted at 1,377.69 KRW/USD, 2026-08-28 -- the same rate and reading date already stored on this company's valuation and prior revenue_estimate, kept for consistency across this card's figures rather than introducing a second basis.

Description

Regulatory filing · 30 Jun 2026

LG Corp's DART half-year report describes LG AI Research (인공지능(AI) 역량 강화 및 혁신을 위한 연구용역을 제공하는 LG AI연구원), a unit of the consolidated subsidiary LG Management Development Institute, as the AI research arm the stored description already names.

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