ETRI, South Korea’s leading government-funded research institute, is establishing itself as a key research entity for securing nation’s artificial intelligence sovereignty. ETRI announced that it was selected as one of five national research teams as part of the NC AI Consortium in the independent AI foundation model development project, promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and began full-scale AI research in August. This selection is particularly significant as it solidifies ETRI’s status as a national research institute and secures its representation in the research community.

Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited AI expertise in industrial fields such as factories, medical, and shipbuilding, providing them with a significant boost. ETRI announced that it has released the core technology of MLOps tool, which automatically generates neural networks based on no-code and automates the deployment process, as open source on GitHub.

On November 8, 2025, the Faculty of Education at East China Normal University hosted a grand ceremony to present the second Global Award for Innovation in Education Research Methods. Five distinguished scholars—Ruth Hayhoe, Stephen Raudenbush, Manabu Sato, Shanmai Wang, and Rupert Wegerif—from Canada, the United States, Japan, China, and the United Kingdom were honored with this year’s award.