🧬 Architecture lineage of Korea's sovereign-AI foundation models — checked with public data
In late July 2026, as Korea released self-developed foundation models competing with DeepSeek and Qwen (e.g. LG K-EXAONE 2.0, 750B), interest grew — including a Zhihu thread with 2.7M+ views (→ https://www.zhihu.com/question/2067512422555029717 ) — over whether these models are trained from scratch or built on foreign open-weights.
Sharing a tool that answers this with public data rather than opinion.
It classifies the public models of 9 Korean organizations that released "self-developed, from-scratch foundation models" on HuggingFace — 3 large enterprises (LG, NAVER, Kakao), 2 telcos (SKT, KT), 2 mid-size firms (NCSOFT, Upstage), 2 startups (Motif, VIDRAFT) — on two axes measured from public config.json + model weights: • Architecture fingerprint — does model_type + (hidden·intermediate·layers) match a foreign open-weight model • Weight fingerprint — embedding similarity (from-scratch vs continued-pretraining)
The results are not uniform. Some models match foreign architectures (Qwen, Llama, …) exactly; others use self-built architectures and weights with no foreign match. Which company/model falls where is shown per model in the Space, along with attention originality, license, and reproducible open-source status.
This is a neutral transparency tool, not an accusation — building foundation models on open-weight bases is a legitimate, industry-standard practice. The exact same yardstick is applied to every model, without exception.
Features a 3D lineage graph, search, EN / 中文 / 한국어, and dark mode. Corrections are welcome via the Community tab.
Verified result: 510.58 TPS at PPL 2.3930 on a single A10G (fw188-ctk49-n64-patchbridge, re-run & VERIFIED). Honest note: on raw TPS there are faster runs (535+), but those went over the PPL bar and didn't verify — what we're proud of is the fastest result that keeps quality.
The recipe is already open, so we explained each piece: sliding-window W188, CTK49 kernel tuning, noprecache (honest, verifiable measurement), and an N64 synthetic warmup bridge that shrinks the public↔private gap (~15 TPS), plus INT4 + MTP K=7 + CUDA-graph capture. One rule: only stack quality-neutral speedups.
🖼️ POCKET-Image — the POCKET series goes visual: character-perfect text in any language, on-device
A new model in VIDRAFT's POCKET family. POCKET put 35B-class models on phones and no-GPU PCs. POCKET-Image carries the same "big capability, small hardware" idea into image generation — and fixes the one thing nearly every image model gets wrong: text.
Type "안녕하세요" into a typical model and you get "안ㅐ기." Hangul alone composes 11,172 syllable blocks; Arabic connects its letters; Thai stacks marks. Diffusion models draw scripts as shapes, so they smear. POCKET-Image renders every glyph exactly — 한국어 · 中文 · 日本語 · العربية (RTL) · ไทย · Latin and more — onto any scene you describe.
What it is: • 100% accurate text, any language — where global models produce gibberish • Any background from a prompt — text is optional (empty → a pure image) • No GPU, no NPU — runs on plain CPU + RAM via the POCKET-Core engine • Measured footprint: 8.6 GB (RTX 3050/4060) · 4.5 GB (offloaded, 6 GB cards) · 13.4 GB (MacBook, 16 GB+) • Windows · macOS · Linux · fully local, no cloud
Built on the open, commercial-friendly Z-Image (Apache-2.0) foundation.
Honest note: the text is the guaranteed-correct part — the surrounding scene is ordinary generation, so a busy foreground can crowd the letters. We say so; clean backgrounds stay razor-sharp.