K-EXAONE 2.0
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.
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LG AI Research's own announcement states the model "transitioned the model's license to Apache 2.0, allowing commercial use without restrictions"; published on Hugging Face at no charge. No separate paid API or pricing page found.
What it does
- Text generation
- Model inference
How it compares
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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
It also delivered performance comparable to leading global models, including GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 Pro Max and Qwen3.5, in instruction-following benchmarks.
News reporting · 19 Sep 2026 -
DeepSeek API Platform
It also delivered performance comparable to leading global models, including GLM-5.1, DeepSeek V4 Pro Max and Qwen3.5, in instruction-following benchmarks.
News reporting · 19 Sep 2026 -
Z.ai Model API
In global and Korean long-context comprehension benchmarks (OpenAI-MRCR and Ko-LongBench), the model scored 94.4 and 89.6, respectively, outperforming Zhipu's GLM-5.1.
News reporting · 19 Sep 2026
Sources
- Pricing
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Official documentation · 11 Sep 2026
Direct quote: "transitioned the model's license to Apache 2.0, allowing commercial use without restrictions."
- Description
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Official documentation · 11 Sep 2026
"750 billion parameters... more than a threefold increase in scale compared to the first-phase model (236B)."
- Sold within
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Official documentation · 15 Sep 2026
lgresearch.ai's own news page (already cited official-docs elsewhere on this record); downloaded directly from Hugging Face.
- URL
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Official documentation · 11 Sep 2026
LG AI Research's own news page for K-EXAONE 2.0.
- Deployment
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Official documentation · 11 Sep 2026
Announcement frames access entirely as a Hugging Face download; no managed hosted endpoint mentioned.
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