EXAONE

EXAONE is LG AI Research's open-weight model line, now led by EXAONE 4.5, a 33B vision-language model released in April 2026 that pairs a 1.29B visual encoder with a 31.7B language model, handles a 262K context, and covers six languages after LG expanded support beyond Korean and English. The earlier EXAONE 4.0 generation, at 32B and 1.2B, unified a non-reasoning mode with a reasoning mode for extended chain-of-thought inside a single model using a hybrid local-global attention scheme with QK-Reorder-Norm, and the line also includes the EXAONE Deep reasoning models and the 237B K-EXAONE. Official GGUF and AWQ quantizations ship alongside support in Hugging Face Transformers, llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM. The catch is licensing: the EXAONE AI Model License 1.2 - NC permits research and educational use but bars commercial deployment and building competing models, so production use needs a separate agreement with LG. Weights live on Hugging Face under the LGAI-EXAONE collection. For Korean-language capability in particular, the family is among the strongest openly downloadable options.