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Naver, a South Korean internet giant, has just launched HyperCLOVA X SEED Think, a 32B open weights reasoning model that scores 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. This model is one of the strongest South Korean models, and outperforms EXAONE 4.0 32B, a previous Korean model leader Key benchmarking takeaways: ➤ Strength in Agentic Tool Use: HyperCLOVA X SEED Think scores 87% on τ²-Bench Telecom, demonstrating strong performance on agentic tool-use workflows. HyperCLOVA X SEED Think currently ranks among the frontier models in τ²-Bench Telecom, scoring similarly in this category to Gemini 3 Pro Preview ➤ Low token usage: HyperCLOVA X SEED Think demonstrates low token usage relative to other models in the same intelligence tier, using only ~39M reasoning tokens across the Artificial Analysis Intelligence suite. Compared to other Korean models like Motif-2-12.7B (190M reasoning tokens) and Exaone 4.0 32B (96M reasoning tokens), HyperCLOVA X SEED Think sees a clear advantage in token usage which could have latency and cost advantages for at-scale deployment ➤ Korean Language Advantage: HyperCLOVA X SEED Think scores 82% on Global MMLU Lite multilingual index for Korean, roughly in line with leading open-weights models such as gpt-oss-120b in the language category. This highlights the model’s potential usefulness in a primarily Korean language environment ➤ Open weights: HyperCLOVA X SEED Think is open weights and is 32B parameters. This continues the recent trend of newer Korean model labs open sourcing their models in an increasingly competitive AI race See below for further analysis