The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to develop an independent AI foundation model that ranks among the top 10 in the world next year and establish AI colleges and AX innovation research centers centered on the four major regional science and technology institutes. Additionally, they will promote the AI Co-Scientist, the national challenge ‘K-Moonshot,’ and the fostering of strategic technologies such as bio and quantum.
On the 12th, the Ministry of Science and ICT reported its work plan for next year to the President at the Sejong Convention Center. This report aims to materialize the national tasks of becoming one of the top three AI countries and realizing a science and technology powerhouse, based on the AI and science and technology achievements since the launch of the people’s sovereignty government, to produce tangible changes and results that the public can feel next year.
The Ministry of Science and ICT has been upgraded to a deputy prime minister organization, and a new Science and Technology Relations Ministers’ Meeting chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister for Science and Technology AI has been established to complete the governance of science and technology and AI policy and execution. They have also allocated the largest-ever budget for science and technology and AI to lay the foundation for becoming a global science and technology powerhouse and entering the AI era. Next year, they plan to fully operate this governance and quickly promote science and technology-based industrial innovation, the fostering of future new industries, and the resolution of national challenges through public-private cooperation.
The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to complete the first phase of the independent AI foundation model project by January next year and provide it as open source within the first half of the year. They will also hold AI competitions and select AI champions, linking them with prizes, follow-up R&D, commercialization, and startup support. They will expand AI education opportunities and build an AI highway to respond to the urgent GPU demand of academia, industry, and research institutes.