South Korea making its own security-centric AI model
AI AND ML
Adapting existing local LLM project for security and sovereignty purposes and hopes to one day match Mythos
South Korea is developing its own security-focused AI model and hopes to bring it online by the end of the year, to ensure the nation has sovereign bug-finding capabilities.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon revealed the effort to create the model yesterday, and said it’s needed so South Korea possesses a bug-finding model to rival Anthropic’s Mythos.
The US government has twice blocked access to Mythos, once by requiring Anthropic to offer it only to American citizens – a demand the AI company could not meet and therefore blocked all access – and a second time by ordering the company to take down its services so Washington could investigate allegations of possible dangerous performance problems.
Those incidents led many other nations conclude that the...
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