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title: "SKT partnership announcement"
description: "SK Telecom (SKT), Korea’s largest mobile operator, has become a commercial partner and strategic investor in Anthropic. The companies will develop a multilingual large language model customized for telecommunications applications such as customer service, marketing, sales, and interactive consumer experiences, with support planned for Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, and more. Anthropic will fine-tune Claude using SKT’s telecommunications expertise: SKT experts will provide feedback on responses, and that feedback will help train industry-specific solutions. SKT has invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic, following an earlier investment by SK Telecom Venture Capital, while the companies describe the partnership as a way to promote AI innovation and develop safer, more reliable technology for telcos worldwide."
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# SKT partnership announcement

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Aug 26, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

SK Telecom (SKT), Korea’s largest mobile operator, has become a commercial partner and strategic investor in Anthropic. The companies will develop a multilingual large language model customized for telecommunications applications such as customer service, marketing, sales, and interactive consumer experiences, with support planned for Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, and more. Anthropic will fine-tune Claude using SKT’s telecommunications expertise: SKT experts will provide feedback on responses, and that feedback will help train industry-specific solutions. SKT has invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic, following an earlier investment by SK Telecom Venture Capital, while the companies describe the partnership as a way to promote AI innovation and develop safer, more reliable technology for telcos worldwide.

## Context

SKT and Anthropic are partnering to address telecommunications use cases, including customer service, marketing, sales, and interactive consumer applications. The work is motivated by SKT’s effort to integrate AI into its business and the goal of serving telcos around the world.

## Approach / What changed

Anthropic will fine-tune Claude with telecommunications expertise and feedback from SKT experts. The resulting multilingual model is intended to support Korean, English, Japanese, Spanish, and more. SKT is also making an additional $100 million strategic investment in Anthropic.

## Takeaways

- The planned model targets telco applications including customer service, marketing, sales, and interactive consumer experiences.
- SKT experts will review Claude’s responses, with their feedback used to train industry-specific solutions through fine-tuning.
- SKT’s additional investment in Anthropic is $100 million and follows an earlier investment by SK Telecom Venture Capital.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [LLMs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/llm), [Telecommunications](https://yomu.fyi/topic/telecommunications)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/skt-partnership-announcement)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/skt-partnership-announcement
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-09T11:36:12.338Z

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