Korean AI industry “game changer” CLEVI independently develops “Ivy,” a platform based on ultra-large-scale generative AI
Clevi Inc. announced that it would launch the open beta service for “Ivy,” an ultra-large-scale generative AI independently developed using LLM (large language model) technology.
Canadian startup CLEVI has officially launched its proprietary ultra-large-scale generative AI model, “Ivy,” using LLM (large language model) technology. As a high-performance, low-cost model, Ivy delivers outstanding efficacy and performance, with reasoning, specialized agent capabilities, and a high instruction-following rate. Until now, South Korea had not achieved notable results in the AI market amid the dominance of OpenAI in the United States and DeepSeek in China. However, by officially launching its ultra-large-scale generative AI, “Ivy,” the South Korean startup CLEVI has demonstrated that Korea can also develop AI using its own technological capabilities.
Ivy can be used across a wide range of fields, from individual users to enterprises, as it provides powerful features including △real-time learning and adaptation △multimodal data processing △a code interpreter △expert model generation and △an agent support system.
Clevi CEO Lee Hwan-ho had been interested in AI and continued research and development even before founding the company in 2022. Despite limited financial resources after establishing the company, he successfully developed the proprietary model over more than two years, starting with pre-training through an efficiently designed training pipeline. According to the company, the model development cost approximately KRW 1.5 billion, while operating costs average around KRW 10 million per month. This is expected to provide a breakthrough solution to the AI cost challenges facing businesses.
CEO Lee Hwan-ho emphasizes that the “Ivy” model’s high efficiency and performance can resolve the issue often cited as a limitation of generative AI: “PoCs are easy, but completion is not.” Through this, businesses can reduce labour costs and improve productivity by having AI perform repetitive and inefficient tasks.
CLEVI has introduced innovative technology that efficiently manages the development process by applying automated, container-based training node deployment technology to minimize AI development costs. It is also noteworthy that costs have been significantly reduced through the efficient design of training pipelines and optimization of communication networks between nodes.
The ‘Ivy’ model is characterized by the development of a Mixture of models for efficient model training and operation. It was developed by creating smaller models, distilling and merging these models into the model, and incorporating attention and layer expansion to merge models or develop efficient models through improved routing. Its support for a wide range of languages worldwide—not only English and Korean—through multilingual training and embedding optimization is also noteworthy.
In particular, as the United States’ Open AI and China’s DeepSeek compete aggressively in AI technology, the domestic large-scale generative AI model 'Ivy' is attracting attention in the industry after recording higher scores than the two existing models in various benchmark tests (△AIME 2024: 81% △MATH-500: 98.6 △SWE-BENCH: 51.1 △MMLU: 91.2).
In addition, as the use of AI Assistant expands and concerns about personal information leaks and security grow, CLEVI has made the Ivy app platform available so that users can sign up with minimal personal information. For public institutions and businesses, it has been evaluated as having resolved security concerns by supporting on-premises installation tailored to the user environment.
A CLEVI representative said, “Our company plans not only to launch Ivy, but also to release an agent that will directly intervene, respond and participate in conversations between individual and group users in the future. In addition to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, we have also completed research and development on AI-based active workflow agents “ARI” (Adaptive Reasoning Intelligence), which enable more efficient use of AI in various fields such as education and R&D, as well as methods for precise object recognition and real-time control in video content production and medical image analysis, and are preparing to make these services available. We ask for your continued interest in CLEVI’s activities as it makes an impact in the global AI market through innovative technology, outstanding performance and cost savings,” they said.
Meanwhile, Ivy (‘Ivy’) is registered on the Google Play Store, and Ivy can also be downloaded and used from the company’s official website and the Ivy download page.
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Source: Daily Economy (Reporter Oh Seok-ju) | https://www.kdpress.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=136384