South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility
THE SO WHAT
South Korea treating premium AI chatbots as a public utility—delivered via KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao—is a state-level bet on domestic AI over U.S. and Chinese options. If you operate in that market, assume baseline access to capable models is free and differentiation has to come from domain data, distribution, or hardware.
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