Agentic AI’s Production Gap Takes Center Stage at Seoul’s Record AI Summit
- Seoul's AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2026 runs through August 21 at COEX, with 118 companies from 7 countries across 307 booths.
- IDC research cited at the summit says 88% of agent pilots never reach broad production, due to operational and governance gaps.
- Day 1 themes focused on agentic AI's production gap: observability, inference architecture, multi-agent failure modes, and context retrieval.
- Speakers argued the main deployment bottleneck is inference cost and operational complexity, not model capability.
- The event is the first major private-sector AI business event in Korea since the government's San Francisco AI Declaration of July 24, 2026.
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