How to pronounce exaone
product community-consensus
exaone is most commonly pronounced "ex ay wun" (/ˈɛks.eɪ.wʌn/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.
LG AI Research's open-weight LLM/LMM family (EXAONE 4.0/4.5, K-EXAONE; 2025-2026). Name is an acronym, EXpert AI for EveryONE, so it parses EX-A-ONE. STRESS: EX-a-wun (first syllable). NOT 'exa-ONE' like the SI prefix, NOT 'ex-AY-one.' Acronym documented on LG's HF org page; no explicit spoken-pronunciation quote, hence community-consensus.
Source: LG AI Research — EXAONE HuggingFace org page
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