Ryu Young-sang

SK Telecom invests $100M in Anthropic and partners to build telco-optimized Claude

Anthropic announced a strategic partnership and $100M investment from SK Telecom (SKT), South Korea's largest mobile operator. The two companies will co-develop a fine-tuned version of Claude optimized for telecommunications use cases including customer service, marketing, and sales, with multilingual support for Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish. SKT domain experts will provide feedback to guide Claude's fine-tuning on telco-specific tasks, and the partnership follows an earlier investment from SK Telecom Venture Capital.