The Ministry of Science and ICT will perform the primary spherical of evaluations for the state-led challenge to develop homegrown synthetic intelligence (AI) basis fashions in January.
The ministry notified the collaborating consortia on Thursday that efficiency assessments to eradicate one of many 5 groups will happen from Jan. 1 to fifteen.
In August, the ministry chosen 5 consortia led by Naver Cloud, Upstage, SK Telecom, NC AI and LG AI Analysis to domestically develop basis fashions, investing round 200 billion received ($136 million) to cowl prices for high-performance GPUs, datasets and R&D personnel.
Each six months, the federal government will eradicate one of many groups after analysis, narrowing the sector to 2 finalists by the primary half of 2027. The upcoming January evaluation will decide the primary crew to be eradicated.
The analysis was initially slated for December however was pushed again to accommodate delays from points working graphics processing items (GPUs).
A number of the collaborating firms reportedly confronted issues getting the GPUs supplied by SK Telecom and Naver Cloud to run to full efficiency specs, which slowed their growth progress.
The ministry defined that such technical points are a traditional a part of constructing giant AI fashions, particularly in early levels.
“When creating large-scale AI fashions utilizing huge GPU clusters, it’s important to unravel sure challenges at first, equivalent to getting the GPUs arrange, ensuring all of the programs work effectively collectively and fixing any technical points that come up throughout the course of,” the ministry mentioned.
“The federal government has been actively serving to the chosen challenge groups make the most of GPUs from the very begin and is carefully coordinating with all groups to handle technical points as they come up.”
Every consortium is aiming to construct a mannequin that matches a minimum of 95 p.c of the efficiency ranges of prime world fashions. At every analysis, the groups’ expertise, potential business influence and plans for world progress are thought of.
