[Manufacturing AI①]Korean IT Firms Turn to Factory Data for Specialized AI
· Source: thelec.net
In short
Korean mid-sized IT service firms such as CJ OliveNetworks, Asiana IDT, KOLON BENIT and POSCO DX are pivoting from general-purpose LLMs toward domain-specific and small language models optimized for manufacturing and logistics. They argue that shop-floor data, security and real-time performance make specialized AI essential for factory environments, where general-purpose models risk hallucinations and production disruptions. The trend aligns with Gartner's forecast that more than half of enterprise generative AI models will be domain-specific by 2028.
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Tags: manufacturing, domain-specific, logistics, sLLM, on-premise