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SK Telecom Unveils A.X K1, Korea's First 500B-Scale Hyperscale AI Model
SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) today unveiled 'A.X K1,' Korea's first hyperscale artificial intelligence (AI) model with 519 billion (519B) parameters.
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