On November 14, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology announced its participation in the Lunit consortium for the development of a specialized AI basic model and began work on a model for medicine and life sciences. The project, supervised by the Ministry of Science and ICT, aims at an AI system that covers the entire life cycle of bio and medical data and creates an innovation ecosystem.

The consortium includes seven companies, including Lunit, Trillion Labs, Kakao Healthcare, Igenscience, SK Biopharm, and Rebellion, as well as nine medical and research institutions, such as Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul National University, New York University, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, and Yonsei Severance Hospital. Supported by 256 B200 GPUs, an evidence-based full-cycle model for medical data is created, as well as a multi-agent system in which several AIs work out diagnoses and predictions.

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology team consists of professors from the School of Computing and the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, including Yoonjae Choi, Tae-Kyun Kim, Jong Chul Ye, Hyunwoo Kim, and Seunghoon Hong, with Vice President Sang Yup Lee as advisor. It collects data and develops a seven-step strategy for processing and managing medical and life sciences information, from language to molecular structures, proteins, omics data, drugs, and clinical research and patient data.

Sang Yup Lee, an expert in synthetic biology and systemic metabolic engineering, advises on the analysis of vital information such as genes and proteins, as well as on setting up a feedback system to validate results to ensure reliability and competitiveness.

President Kwang Hyung Lee emphasized the contribution to creating an AI-based ecosystem in the life sciences, innovating strategic industries through AI-bio-convergence, and advancing in health and science and technology.

The model will be released under an open license and extended to services such as national health chatbots. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology plans to strengthen AI infrastructure for life science data, standardization of medical AI, and ethics and policy advice to drive change in bioscience and medical research.

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