Signal Korea's 'AI top three' national strategy and sovereign foundation-model programme in 2025

Summary

The essay describes 2025 as a turning point for Korean AI policy, organised around the Framework Act on AI. The current government listed becoming one of the world's three leading AI powers among its 23 national strategies, with six related national tasks covering technology development, industrial use and social diffusion. The flagship development measure is the sovereign AI foundation model project, for which five consortia were selected as elite teams in August and receive data, GPU and talent support. A national AI computing centre project has also begun to secure GPUs, and support for domain-specific foundation models has started. Together these measures aim at world-class technology capability, stronger industrial competitiveness and social trust.