EXAONE Deep 7.8B
LG's open reasoning model — 95% of the 32B's performance at 24% of the size.
About
EXAONE Deep 7.8B, released March 2025 by LG AI Research, is the lightweight sibling of EXAONE Deep-32B — a reasoning model family positioned as Korea's DeepSeek-R1-class open release. LG reports the 7.8B keeps up to 95% of the 32B's performance at 24% of the size, with the 32B itself scoring 95.7 on MATH-500 and 66.1 on GPQA Diamond, and landing on Epoch AI's notable-models list.
Weights are open on Hugging Face (LGAI-EXAONE), with a 2.4B on-device variant for phones, cars, and robots where data stays on-device. Limitations: benchmark headlines are LG's own evaluations; the ecosystem (fine-tunes, tooling) is thinner than Qwen/Llama equivalents; and Korean/English are the strong languages.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 65; Trending score 76/100 from researcher assessment.