In this episode of Neural Search Talks, we welcome Hyeongu Yun from LG AI Research to discuss the newest addition to the EXAONE Universe: EXAONE 3.0. The model demonstrates strong capabilities in both English and Korean, excelling not only in real-world instruction-following scenarios but also achieving impressive results in math and coding benchmarks. Hyeongu shares the team's approach to the development of this model, revealing key training factors that contributed to its success while also highlighting the challenges they faced along the way. We close this episode off with a look at EXAONE's future, as well as Hyeongu's perspective on the evolving role of AI systems.

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