The National Artificial Intelligence Commission (Chairman Choi Sang-mok, Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance, hereinafter referred to as the Commission) held the 3rd National Artificial Intelligence Commission meeting at 10:00 am on the 20th in the National Artificial Intelligence Commission conference room (16th floor of Seoul Square).
The National AI Commission, which was launched as a joint public-private national AI policy control tower last September, has been operating five subcommittees and discussing policy tasks for the development of the domestic AI ecosystem together with the public and private sectors. Today’s meeting was held to diagnose the recent rapidly changing global AI market trends and to establish and quickly promote a pan-government policy for the leap to become one of the top three AI powerhouses.
Recently, major advanced countries such as the US, EU, and France have announced large-scale investment plans worth hundreds of trillions of won in the AI field, and an all-out war is unfolding among countries to secure global AI leadership. Furthermore, Chinese AI startup DeepSec, which has star-level AI core talent, is showing the possibility of overcoming the existing big tech-led AI competition structure through SW and algorithm innovation, and the global AI technology innovation and investment competition is accelerating.
This 3rd committee was attended by approximately 40 people, including Acting President and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Sang-mok (hereinafter referred to as Acting President Choi Sang-mok), government and private sector representatives, and Naver, Moreh, and Liner. It began with a presentation by a private sector expert, followed by presentations and discussions on agenda items from relevant ministries.
Acting Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok emphasized in his opening remarks, “Although the sense of crisis is growing as the global AI environment is rapidly changing, this is a new opportunity for us, and a critical time when the public and private sectors must join forces to quickly strengthen the nation’s AI capabilities in order to leap forward as one of the top three AI powerhouses.” He added, “The government will focus its support so that we can develop a world-class AI model in a short period of time, and strengthen the training of key AI talent and the recruitment of excellent overseas talent.”
In addition, Acting President Choi said, “We will expand infrastructure such as computing resources and data, and support the fostering of AI startups and market creation so that we can become number one in the world in AI utilization and industrialization.”
In the private sector expert presentation, Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon introduced the implications of the Trump administration’s AI policy and China’s DeepSeeker AI development for our industry under the theme of “Global AI Status and Domestic Response Direction,” and emphasized the government’s infrastructure investment for the development of private AI core technologies and support for the AI transition across industries.
Next, the relevant ministries announced three agenda items: ▲'Measures to Strengthen National AI Capabilities by Expanding AI Computing Infrastructure' (hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT), ▲'Measures to Expand AI Utilization by Fostering AI Startups' (hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups), and ▲'Measures to Expand and Open AI Data' (hosted by the Personal Information Protection Commission).
The main contents of the agenda are as follows.
In order to dramatically improve our country's AI competitiveness in the global AI ecosystem where fierce competition is taking place, including in the US and China, we will promote the development of world-class AI models and the cultivation of top-notch talents, while expanding infrastructure such as AI computing resources and data, and accelerating the full-scale AI industrialization and national AI transformation.
First, we will select an 'AI National Representative Elite Team' and promote the '(tentative name) World Best LLM Project' that focuses on supporting research resources such as data and GPUs with the goal of developing a global top-level large-scale language model (LLM). We will also expand support such as research expenses so that the elite team can attract key global talents. We will expand the use of excellent AI models to the public and private sectors and establish a sharing system that can accelerate open innovation with AI researchers. In addition, in order to secure future AI competitiveness, we will challenge ourselves to secure core source technologies for general-purpose artificial intelligence (AGI, preliminary feasibility study in progress) worth 1 trillion won.
Second, in order to foster and secure top-notch AI talent, we plan to hold a 'Global AI Challenge' that solves challenging problems in the AI field, and expand the 'Global AI Frontier Lab' that opened in the US last year to other countries such as Europe. In addition, we plan to establish a program that intensively supports new domestic AI researchers, and to foster AI convergence talent desired by companies, we plan to promote the establishment of an industry-academia collaboration AX Graduate School, and strengthen innovative education (Innovation Academy, etc.).
Third, in order to quickly respond to the urgent AI computing demands in the field, a total of 18,000 computing resources (high-performance GPUs) will be secured for the National AI Computing Center and Supercomputer No. 6 by the first half of 2026. In addition, tax support will be strengthened throughout the AI value chain, and private investment in AI data centers will be activated through improvements in power and location-related systems. In addition, domestic AI semiconductors and AI models will be verified as a package through the National AI Computing Center, and support will be provided for strengthening AI semiconductor HW-SW technology.
Fourth, we will expand and open up high-quality public and private data for AI learning. We will expand the use of unstructured original data (videos, etc.) that was previously only allowed in the autonomous driving field to fields that are socially and industrially necessary, while establishing special cases for the use of personal information to ensure stable use of data for the period required for AI research, and expand the legal basis for processing personal information to enable the use of AI development for public interest such as crime prevention.
In addition, we will build and open synthetic data in sensitive areas such as healthcare and defense, and specialized data in each field such as media, industry, manufacturing, and finance for the advancement of generative AI, and actively open unstructured data and synthetic data with high AI demand among public data as national priority data. In addition, we will improve the internal operating system for pseudonymization of public institutions and promote the opening of public data by reflecting the performance of providing pseudonymized information in management evaluations of public institutions, etc.
Fifth, we will promote AI leading projects so that innovative AI services developed by our companies can be quickly spread to domestic and overseas markets, leading to demand creation and enhanced competitiveness. We will develop generative AI-based services through inter-ministerial collaboration, focusing on fields with high industrial ripple effects and high public awareness, such as medicine, law, media and culture, and disaster and safety. In addition, we plan to utilize public-private cooperation innovation projects, etc. to develop AI services specialized for solving specific industrial problems through collaboration between large companies and startups, and to spread successful cases of autonomous manufacturing leading projects by industry and sector through the construction of smart factories.
Sixth, we will support the growth of AI startups to strengthen AI supply capabilities. We will support the development of AI models through collaboration between companies, foster startups specializing in AI services in various fields such as manufacturing and finance, and designate 100 specialized manufacturing AI companies to provide intensive support in the form of loans and guarantees of up to KRW 10 billion per company, as well as human resources and sales channel expansion. In addition, 60% (KRW 5.7 trillion) of the total new liquidity supply to SMEs (KRW 9.8 trillion) in loans and guarantees in 2025 will be concentrated on innovative growth fields such as AI and semiconductors, and an AI-focused fund of approximately KRW 3 trillion will be created and operated by the government and private funds by 2027 to significantly expand financial support for AI startups.
In the discussion that followed, various discussions were held on topics such as ▲AI model and algorithm development and open ecosystem utilization ▲nurturing key talent and startups that will lead the AI industry ▲building large-scale AI computing infrastructure and developing domestic AI semiconductors ▲eliminating regulations related to copyright and personal information protection ▲spreading AI across industry and the public sector, etc. to innovate the nation’s AI competitiveness.
Going forward, the government plans to consolidate AI capabilities across government agencies with the National AI Commission as the focal point and strengthen the driving force of the national AI policy. In particular, while closely monitoring global AI trends, the public and private sectors will work together to find solutions to the needs of the field and quickly implement them.
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