LG U+ and FuriosaAI Unveil Sovereign AI Appliance

At MWC 2026, FuriosaAI and LG U+ officially unveiled the Sovereign AI Appliance. It is a 'ready to run' AI inference solution that packages a foundational model, platform, and AI silicon developed in Korea into a single server package.

The core is the combination of the Furiosa RNGD inference accelerator, LG EXAONE 4.0, and the ixi-Enterprise platform. This provides secure AI infrastructure that requires almost no separate configuration, and is designed to run RAG pipelines immediately in an on-premise environment.

Operational efficiency was also emphasized. The companies highlighted a 30% reduction in TCO compared to existing GPU clusters, explaining that RNGD, based on TCP architecture, is compatible with standard 15kW air-cooled data center racks, eliminating the need for costly liquid-cooling retrofits.

The target applications were presented as industries where data security is critical.

• Defense: Converting documents into a knowledge base within closed networks to answer tactical and maintenance queries
• Healthcare: CDS support that processes patient records and test results locally
• Public Sector: Automating administrative tasks and document search within secure facilities
• Manufacturing/R&D: Utilizing design drawings and logs without uploading them to external cloud

The reference configuration features a 2-server cluster equipped with 14 RNGD cards, delivering 7,168 TOPS(FP8) aggregate throughput. It supports a 32K context length, and is configured to simultaneously run Qwen3-VL, Qwen3 Embeddings, and the EXAONE 4.0 sovereign backbone, tailored for document-centric workloads.

The two companies plan to further develop NPUaaS and a Physical AI Appliance for industrial robots and factory control.