LG AI Research Makes K-EXAONE 2.5 API Available for Free

LG AI Research is making the API for its proprietary K-EXAONE 2.5 foundation model available for free to developers, startups, enterprises, and research institutions. According to internal evaluations using publicly available datasets, the model demonstrates competitive agentic AI performance comparable to global frontier-class open-weight AI models, including DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3. The model aims to boost software development productivity and support complex reasoning, coding, and workflow automation. Open article →