LG CNS said Monday that it has entered into an artificial intelligence transformation partnership with Canada-based Cohere.

Under the agreement, LG CNS plans to customize Cohere's agentic AI solution, North, and provide enterprise-tailored services in an on-premise deployment model.

Agentic AI is a technology that goes beyond simple question-and-answer interactions, enabling AI to autonomously plan, execute and evaluate actions iteratively to solve complex problems.

Cohere, founded by former Google AI researchers, specializes in large language models and AI solutions with a strong emphasis on data security.

Cohere CEO and co-founder Aidan Gomez is a disciple of Geoffrey Hinton, a University of Toronto professor often referred to as the “godfather of AI.”

Gomez is also co-author of the groundbreaking transformer paper, which laid the foundation for modern LLMs.

The IT solutions provider plans to fine-tune Cohere’s LLM to develop Korean-language and finance-specialized AI agent models.

To achieve this goal, LG CNS will integrate its extensive expertise and accumulated data in the financial sector into these AI models.

The two companies will first target the financial AI transformation market before expanding their industry applications to manufacturing, retail and services, with the long-term goal of entering the global agentic AI market.

“At a time when agentic AI is yet to be fully adopted in Korea, LG CNS, in partnership with Cohere, will take the lead in pioneering the market,” said Chin Yo-han, head of the AI center at LG CNS.

By Jie Ye-eun (yeeun@heraldcorp.com)