**Samsung AI Forum Opening Today**
Samsung Electronics is hosting its annual AI technology exchange event, the “Samsung AI Forum,” two months earlier than usual, beginning on the 15th. The forum aims to explore ways to strengthen AI competitiveness. Renowned scholars in the field of deep learning, such as Yoshua Bengio from the University of Montreal, will present new safety-oriented “Scientist AI” models, while Joseph Gonzalez from UC Berkeley will introduce a paradigm that eliminates service downtime. Samsung plans to implement AI in 90% of its operations within the next five years and restructure its business strategies around AI to overcome management uncertainties.
The forum, held over two days, features talks by global AI experts, including Rao Kambhampati from Arizona State University in the field of autonomous planning within AI, and Stefano Ermon from Stanford University, co-founder of startup Inception, which revealed diffusion model language technology.
On the first day, the event is hosted at Samsung’s device solutions (DS) division’s campus in Yongin, where Bengio discussed potential risks like evading human control in existing AI models and introduced the concept of “Scientist AI” as a safety mechanism. He emphasized the importance of these models for both safety and accelerating scientific discovery. Amit Gupta, VP at Siemens EDA, highlighted the need for end-to-end systems to fully leverage AI’s potential.
The DS division also discussed a “vertical AI strategy and vision” for the semiconductor industry.
On the second day, the device experience (DX) division will focus on practical applications of large language models (LLMs) under the theme of “Agentic AI.” Professor Gonzalez will introduce the “sleep time compute” paradigm, which uses downtime between user interactions to perform inference, learning, and planning. Professor Kambhampati will discuss research on “Large Reasoning Models (LRM)” to complement the limitations of existing LLMs, and Professor Ermon will present a “Diffusion Language Model (DLM)” that applies diffusion models, previously used for images, videos, and audio, to language.
During the technology sessions, Samsung Research will showcase practical applications, such as “AI technology for automatic adjustment of camera color temperature” and “on-device technology to integrate LLMs into electronics like smartphones and TVs.” Jeon Young-hyun, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics, stated the importance of developing foundational technology that allows easy and quick use of AI anytime, anywhere, and praised the forum as a meaningful opportunity to discuss how AI is transforming society and industry with experts from academia and the industrial sector.
SK Group is also enhancing its AI competitiveness, conducting the “AI Leadership Program” for about 100 C-level executives four times from this month to next at Susong Square in Seoul. LG Group will open an AI graduate school on the 30th, focusing on problem-solving capabilities in its degree program.