Upstage's Solar Pro 4 becomes available to civil servants on gov't network

Korean artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage said Tuesday that its large language model Solar Pro 4 is now fully available on the government’s shared AI platform. Civil servants can now use a domestically developed AI model for daily work inside the government’s closed administrative network. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the Ministry of Science and ICT run the platform. Through it, they provide AI models, data and development tools to central government agencies and local governments. Solar Pro 4 is offered through FabriX, an AI agent platform from Samsung SDS, the IT services affiliate of Samsung Group. The model runs on network infrastructure that passed a security review by the National Intelligence Service, Korea’s spy agency. Internal government data remains within the network. The platform centrally manages the graphics processing units (GPUs), the high-performance chips needed to run AI models. This means agencies can use the model through a chat interface or an application programming interface without buying or leasing their own GPU servers. The mode