NAVER HyperCLOVA X THINK

https://navercorp.com/en/tech/hyperclovax

Reasoning-focused successor to HyperCLOVA X. Pre-trained on ~6T high-quality Korean + English tokens. 128K context via rotary position embeddings + grouped-query attention. Sovereign reasoning LLM for Korean enterprises and government.

At a glance

Type
Korean sovereign 128K reasoning LLM
Tier
T1
Created
searched not found
Latest release
not applicable — not OSS
License
not applicable — not OSS
GitHub
not applicable — no GitHub repo
Pricing
Enterprise only
Funding
NAVER corporate (1+ trillion won invested in AI over 5 years; no external VC funding)

Taxonomy

storage
parametric
retrieval
attention
persistence
session
update
read-only
unit
kv-token
governance
opaque
conflict
n/a

When to use

Optimised for: Korean sovereignty + 128K reasoning

Anti-fit: not optimised for non-Korean use cases

Pros & cons

Pros

Korean-first frontier model with memory features tuned to East Asian linguistic patterns.

Cons

Korean-market focus limits global relevance; documentation primarily in Korean.

Claims & capabilities

First reasoning LLM in HyperCLOVA X family. Outperforms global models on Korean benchmarks.

Technical surface

API surface
searched not found
Backend storage
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Deployment
Managed-only
Embedding model
searched not found
Multi-tenancy
searched not found
MCP
not documented publicly
A2A
not documented publicly
OpenTelemetry
not documented publicly

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