As AI usage disparities emerge as a social issue, SK Telecom (SKT) has entered the government-led national AI distribution project. The company plans to leverage its full-stack system with in-house AI services, models, and infrastructure to build AI platforms spanning finance, healthcare, education, and public sectors across daily life.

 

SKT announced on the 19th its participation in the 'AI for All' project initiative led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Information and Communications Technology Promotion Agency.

 

 

SKT operates the AI service 'A.' with approximately 10 million monthly users, and has showcased its proprietary model 'A.X K2' with 688 billion parameters through the government's independent AI foundation model project.

 

 

SKT plans to initially provide an AI chatbot with conversation, search, document analysis, and schedule management capabilities, then sequentially expand to AI agents that execute public service applications, certificate issuance, reservations and payments in healthcare, transportation, finance, and education sectors.

 

The consortium includes △Liner (specialized search) △Shinhan Card, Hana Card (finance and payments) △Tmap Mobility (mobility) △SK Broadband (content) △Persona AI (public data) △Elice Group (education) △Goodoc, Sounderble Health (healthcare) △Nota, SelectStar (AI models and infrastructure) △Aim Intelligence (AI security) and others.

 

Kim Ji-hoon, Head of SKT's AI Business Division, stated, "An environment where everyone can benefit from AI is necessary to prevent AI usage disparities from becoming social inequalities. We will commit our efforts to implementing 'AI for All' services based on our full-stack AI capabilities and nationwide telecommunications customer touchpoints."