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Symposia & Open Labs
Where NAIRL opens its research to the world — a flagship international symposium convening global AI leaders, and open-lab showcases that bring the consortium’s work to industry and the public.
Global AI Frontiers Symposium 2026
Co-hosted by NAIRL and the Global AI Frontier Lab under the theme “AI Beyond Intelligence: Into the Real World,” the symposium brought industry fully into the fold after the previous year’s academia-focused edition — drawing researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity alongside scholars from France’s PRAIRIE Institute and Canada’s Vector Institute.
Leslie Pack Kaelbling
Panasonic Professor, MIT
Academy Keynote · Rational Robots
Noam Brown
VP of Research, OpenAI
Industry Keynote
Kee-Eung Kim (Director, NAIRL · KAIST), Leslie Pack Kaelbling (MIT), Noam Brown (OpenAI), Kyunghyun Cho (Director, Global AI Frontier Lab · NYU), and Emily Black (NYU).
Large Language Models & Agentic AI
Multimodal AI
AI for Science
Physical AI & Embodied Intelligence
AI for Life
Trustworthy, Safe & Governed AI
See the full program and speaker lineup at aifrontiers.kr →
Global AI Frontier Symposium 2025
Co-hosted by NAIRL and the Global AI Frontier Lab, the symposium shared a year of international collaborative research and set out a blueprint for global AI cooperation — drawing more than 500 leaders from academia, industry, and government.
Yann LeCun
Turing Award laureate · Professor, New York University
Keynote · The future of AI governance
Yejin Choi
Professor, Stanford University · Senior Director, NVIDIA
Keynote · The evolution of generative AI
The future of next-generation AI & fundamental research
New model architectures and training paradigms that push past the limits of today’s scaling laws.
Physical AI for real-world autonomy
Embodied intelligence and robotic foundation models that operate reliably in the physical world.
Researchers from Korea, the United States, Japan, France, and the UAE shared joint results, with a panel discussion featuring Yann LeCun, Yejin Choi, Kyunghyun Cho, and NAIRL Director Kee-Eung Kim. Read the recap →
AI Innovation Showcase @ NAIRL 2025
NAIRL’s first open-lab event opened the consortium’s research to industry and the public — presenting progress across its three core pillars and probing where researchers and industry can collaborate next.
Next-generation model efficiency
Neural-scaling research toward models that go beyond the cost and energy limits of scaling laws.
Robotic foundation models
Foundation models for embodied intelligence, driving a paradigm shift toward physical AI.
High-dimensional multimodal generative AI
Generative research across ultra-high-dimensional, multimodal data for real-world applications.
Director Kee-Eung Kim framed the showcase as a platform for deep industry–academia collaboration, not just a results briefing. Read the recap →