LG AI Research Opens Free API Access to K-EXAONE 2.5 Korean Language Model

LG AI Research is now offering free API access to its K-EXAONE 2.5 model, a Korean-language-specialized large language model designed for high-performance Korean NLP tasks. The move lowers the barrier for developers building Korean-language applications to evaluate and prototype with one of the strongest available models in that language domain. K-EXAONE 2.5 is part of LG's broader EXAONE family and has been optimized for instruction-following, reasoning, and domain-specific Korean text tasks. Free API access is particularly significant for startups and researchers who previously faced cost barriers to working with competitive Korean-language models. This also complements NVIDIA's simultaneous release of Dynamo production recipes for Korean open models, suggesting a coordinated push to mature the Korean AI model ecosystem.