SK Telecom A.X K1 — Korea's First 519B Sovereign Foundation Model

SK Telecom unveils A.X K1, Korea's first 500B-scale sovereign AI model with 519 billion parameters. Developed by 8-org consortium (SKT, Krafton, 42dot, Rebellions, Liner, SelectStar, Seoul National University, KAIST). Trained on 1,000 GPUs with 10 trillion data points. Mixture-of-experts architecture activates 33B of 519B parameters per task. Korean tokenizer reduces token consumption 33% vs foreign models.

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Rebellions + SK Telecom + Arm — Sovereign AI Inference Infrastructure

Rebellions, SK Telecom, and Arm announce joint development of AI inference infrastructure for sovereign AI and telecom data centers. Combines Arm AGI CPU with Rebellions' RebelCard accelerator. SKT will validate in its AI data center, then expand to global markets. Plans to run A.X K1 on this stack. RebelCard slated for Q3 2026 release.

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