Benjamin Mann Gives Interview with SK Telecom Ahead of SK AI Summit Keynote
"AI Ecosystem Accelerating Under Government Vision... Collaboration in Telecommunications as Well"
"Companies Adopting Claude Are Achieving Tangible Results"
The co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the large language model (LLM) ‘Claude’, which stands as a major competitor to ChatGPT and Gemini, has named South Korea as the world’s most noteworthy artificial intelligence (AI) market.
According to the telecommunications industry on October 23, Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, stated in an interview with SK Telecom ahead of his keynote speech at the ‘SK AI Summit 2025’ scheduled for November 3-4, “South Korea has a unique innovation ecosystem that combines technological infrastructure, speed of execution, and quality standards.” He added that as public-private collaboration strengthens under the government’s vision of becoming an AI powerhouse, the pace of innovation will accelerate even further.
He explained that Anthropic’s LLM Claude is designed to learn principles of usefulness, harmlessness, and honesty. Through this design, Claude has secured transparency in its reasoning process and predictability in its outcomes.
In particular, the latest version of Claude is drawing attention for outperforming ChatGPT and Gemini in the field of coding. Mann emphasized that companies adopting Claude in their actual work are achieving tangible results.
He also revealed, “In collaboration with SK Telecom, we have developed an AI model specialized for the telecommunications sector.” By training on SK Telecom’s network data, the model’s accuracy has more than doubled. It has evolved to the point where it can understand telecommunications terminology and provide accurate technical answers.
Claude can be customized to meet the needs of individual telecom operators and supports multiple languages, including Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish, enabling global telecom companies to utilize it as a unified system. Mann evaluated that “the ‘Global Telco AI Alliance’ led by SK Telecom is at the forefront of expanding the global AI ecosystem, overcoming barriers of language and regulation.”
At the SK AI Summit 2025, he plans to emphasize that AI assistants are evolving beyond simple task performers to become collaborators with humans. He also identified key elements for the advancement of AI assistants: situational intelligence that understands organizational context and learns through experience, long-term execution capabilities to handle complex tasks over extended periods, and collaborative competencies that transparently explain reasoning processes and adapt to user styles.
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