Deputy Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon announced South Korea's effort to create a security-focused AI model, aiming for sovereign bug-finding capabilities by the end of 2026. This initiative stems from past US government restrictions on access to Anthropic's Mythos model, prompting nations to seek independent AI capacity. The government also sought bids for a public chatbot and an agentic application for government services.
Geopolitical concerns over US control of frontier AI models are driving nations like South Korea to invest in sovereign AI development, creating new demand for local compute and talent.