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■ The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) introduced that it has recognized seven new applied sciences sooner or later power and environmental sectors by means of the ‘Future Energy New Technology Council of Academic Societies and Research Institutes’ and can proceed with their commercialization. The seven new applied sciences are: ▲Energy-Resource Integrated Strategy Brain Platform Technology, ▲Advanced Industrial Thermal Energy Management Technology, ▲HyBridge Next-Generation Hydrogen Technology, ▲Mineral Carbonation and Cement Industry CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization) Technology, ▲Ultra-high Efficiency, Mass-market, Breakthrough Solar Cell Technology, ▲U-BioRefinery2035, and ▲Climate-Adaptive Green Water-Energy Link Technology.
■ On January 30, the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) introduced its plan for choosing new tasks for the 2026 Nano and Materials Technology Development Program. This is MSIT’s flagship ongoing program within the supplies, elements, and tools (MPE) and nano fields. The funds for the Nano and Materials Technology Development Program this 12 months is 268.4 billion gained, a 6.4% (16.1 billion gained) enhance from the earlier 12 months’s 252.3 billion gained. This announcement focuses extra on securing core nano and supplies applied sciences and supporting nationwide strategic applied sciences, with Requests for Proposals (RFPs) being issued for a complete of 21 new tasks, together with 4 for Advanced Global Supply Chain Materials Technology Development, 8 for National Strategic Technology Future Materials Development, 3 for Materials Global Young Connect, and 6 for Nano Future Materials Source Technology Development.
■ Choi Won-ho, Chairman of the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC), visited its affiliated organizations, the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) and the Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control (KINAC), in Daejeon on the thirtieth to carry coverage conferences and talk with on-site security regulation specialists. The assembly was held in a free dialogue format reasonably than as a proper briefing, turning into a real platform for communication the place attendees may straight convey coverage recommendations, in addition to day-to-day difficulties and proposals, to the chairman.
■ The analysis workforce behind KONI (KISTI Open Neural Intelligence), a generative Large Language Model (LLM) specialised in science and know-how from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), has confirmed the worldwide competitiveness of Korean LLMs. Two of their papers have been concurrently accepted on the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), a top-tier convention within the discipline of synthetic intelligence (AI). The KONI workforce collaborated with the non-profit open-source analysis group HAERAE (led by Son Kyu-jin) on a mission to develop a Korean-specific reasoning mannequin. They constructed the ‘Yi-SANG’ coaching dataset, which incorporates 5.79 million native Korean prompts and three.7 million long-form reasoning paths, making it the biggest publicly out there Korean post-training knowledge useful resource.
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