South Korea keeps sovereign AI contest on track, adds KRW4.7T frontier program after hours of confusion

DIGITIMESOctober 6, 2026en

South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT said its Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project will run to completion as originally planned. The statement reversed, within hours, a vice minister's suggestion that the national-team AI competition would wind down as the government launches a new KRW4.7 trillion frontier AI program.

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