SKT (as in SK Telecom) has been promoting and expanding their AI brand under the name "A.Dot" (에이닷). First it was mostly just an app with some convenient features like call recording, transcription, summarizing, etc. But they are going all in on the AI thing and expanding its abilities to a more fully integrated system.
One of those is easily usable online right now: the Adot multi-client LLM (에이닷 멀티 LLM 에이전트). If you're familiar with ChatGPT, it's basically the same, but allowing access to multiple models include Claude, Perplexity, and their own LLM known as Ax. It's akin to Quora's "Poe" service in that sense, or Korea's own Wrtn (뤼튼).
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| SKT's A.Dot multi-agent LLM (에이닷 멀티 LLM 에이전트) |
This comes on the heels of their partnership with Perplexity, which gave SKT Customers access to the Pro version of Perplexity Search:
SKT customers can use Perplexity Pro version for free #SKT #퍼플렉시티프로 #퍼플렉시티 #PerplexityPro #Perplexity https://news.sktelecom.com/208055
I tried asking it about President Yoon's recent and short-lived declaration of martial law in Korea.
Well that was anticlimactic. A.Dot simply doesn't want to answer questions of a sensitive political nature.
I figured I'd give it a few English queries to see how well it could handle some Korean information.
Those answers look right to be, but I couldn't find any indication of its sources. Trying the same in Perplexity returned several websites, but all English language sources.
It returned the right answer: The Roundup is rated for ages 15+. Explained the answer well in English too.
Which brings me to today's announcement in fact that Google is now offering AI Overview results for Korean language queries:
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| A.Dot Ax refuses to answer |
Well that was anticlimactic. A.Dot simply doesn't want to answer questions of a sensitive political nature.
That's a little odd since switching to the Perplexity model does so just fine:
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| A.Dot Perplexity answers thoroughly |
Of course Google refuses too:
The vanilla Perplexity, as well as ChatGPT, apparently give good real-time answers too according to this Korean article:
Even Naver's own AI LLM, know as Cue, which I looked at a bit previously when it was still going under the Clova name, does a decent job:
Anyway, Ax seems to understand English well enough but still refuses:
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| Naver Cue (네이버 큐) AI LLM explaining the martial law order. [Image: ZDNet Korea] |
Anyway, Ax seems to understand English well enough but still refuses:
I figured I'd give it a few English queries to see how well it could handle some Korean information.
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| Asking Ax about egg labeling |
Those answers look right to be, but I couldn't find any indication of its sources. Trying the same in Perplexity returned several websites, but all English language sources.
I tried to think of something that might only be available via Korean sources. How about the age rating for a Korean movie? One from one of my favorite series perhaps.
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| Asking A.Dot's Ax model about the age rating for a Ma Dong-seok movie |
It returned the right answer: The Roundup is rated for ages 15+. Explained the answer well in English too.
Although even Google was able to present an AI overview answer here too:
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| Google answering the same question via AI Overview snippet |
Which brings me to today's announcement in fact that Google is now offering AI Overview results for Korean language queries:
Anyway, feel free to play around with the Ax model of any of the other models here:
Happy chatting.
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