Korean telecom LG U+ to enter AI Token business next year

South Korean telecom operator LG U+ will enter the AI Token business next year. It will use its own Token optimization tech to help businesses cut AI transformation costs. With this move, all three major Korean telecom operators will be part of the Token economy.

The service comes with three core technologies: Harness Engineering for designing Agent task paths, smart routing that picks models by question type, and chip combination that uses mixed semiconductors to speed up inference.

LG U+'s own on-device AI model is one-third smaller but still performs at over 95% of general cloud models. By letting small models draft answers and big models verify them, Token generation is more than twice as fast.

For infrastructure, the company combines NVIDIA and AMD GPUs with NPU chips from Korean firm FuriosaAI, splitting work between problem analysis and answer generation to lower costs. It will fully enter the B2B market next year.