About NAIRL
Mission & Vision
Why the National AI Research Lab exists, what it sets out to achieve, and the principles that guide how we work — together with the world.
The global heart of AI — connecting minds for a better future.
An open innovation platform that unites Korea’s AI capability with the world’s leading researchers to take on humanity’s hardest problems.
To push past the limits of today’s AI through open, boundary-free research — and to build a national AI research ecosystem the world can trust.
Breakthrough research
Secure the core technologies that move beyond today’s scaling laws, and define what next-generation, foundational AI can become.
Open collaboration
Connect industry, academia, research, and government — across Korea and abroad — in a continuously open environment of joint work with the world’s foremost institutions.
Global ecosystem
Share frontier infrastructure and data to lay the groundwork for leadership in Physical AI and the technologies that will follow.
Chair Professor, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI, KAIST
AI has outgrown what any single institution can achieve alone.
We are living through a moment of profound change, as artificial intelligence reshapes daily life and the very paradigms of industry. The frontier of AI no longer advances within the walls of any one lab — it moves forward through global collaboration and the open exchange of knowledge.
The National AI Research Lab was founded to bring together Korea’s finest AI talent and to create a place where leading researchers from around the world can work freely on the challenges we all share. We are not simply a center that builds technology. With partners worldwide, we pursue disruptive, foundational breakthroughs that reach beyond the limits of today’s models — accelerating a better future through next-generation intelligence such as Physical AI, which engages the physical world beyond language, and multi-agent systems that reason and act together.
NAIRL is an open innovation platform where universities, research institutes, and industry partners — in Korea and abroad — communicate and collaborate without boundaries. As a global hub that reaches well beyond Korea, we aim to be the bridge where diverse minds meet and transformative ideas become real.
I warmly invite your interest and your participation in the bold journey of challenge and collaboration that begins here.