SK Telecom’s A.X K1 crushes complex coding and math at 519B params—now open-sourcing it to supercharge Korea’s devs.
Hold up—Korea’s SK Telecom just unleashed A.X K1, their first 519-billion-parameter hyperscale AI beast, and they’re not hoarding it. This ‘Teacher Model’ distills knowledge into smaller LLMs under 70B, making elite reasoning accessible without melting your GPU. As a dev, this hits different: imagine fine-tuning hyperscale smarts for your agents without cloud bills from hell.[3]
Why care? At 500B+ scale, it nails multilingual math, high-complexity code, and agent tasks that choke smaller models. Built by a dream team (Liner for search, Krafton for games, Rebellions for NPUs), it’s fueling real-world stuff like humanoid robots and manufacturing AIX. They’re open-sourcing it via dev communities with APIs—perfect for hacking AI agents without starting from scratch.[3]
My take: This could democratize massive AI like never before, especially if it transfers that stability to edge models. But will it live up to the hype outside Korea? Devs, who’s grabbing the APIs first to test on their projects?
Source: PRNewswire