LG opens a free K-EXAONE 2.5 technical-validation API
LG AI Research made K-EXAONE 2.5 available through the EXAONE API Platform at no charge with an API key. The model is an additional-training technical-validation version based on its August K-EXAONE release and is positioned for agent and coding workflows.
Why it matters: The API lowers the cost of testing a large Korean-English model without operating the earlier 750B-parameter weights. It is useful as an evaluation endpoint, but its validation label and unknown long-term limits make it a poor default dependency without an…