SK Telecom has become a commercial partner and strategic investor of Anthropic, a leading AI technology company, to develop a large language model optimized for telecommunications. The partnership aims to leverage SKT's domain expertise in telcos to fine-tune Anthropic's LLM Claude, creating customized solutions for customer service, marketing, sales, and more. Fine-tuning allows the model to scale industry experts' knowledge, providing improved performance on telco use cases. This collaboration is expected to unlock opportunities for safer and more reliable AI technology serving global telcos.