'AI race shifts from building models to rebuilding companies'

JEJU ISLAND — Companies hoping to gain an edge in the artificial intelligence (AI) era should spend less time chasing the latest models but more time redesigning their organizations, as autonomous AI agents move closer to mainstream enterprise adoption, speakers at the 2026 CEO Summer Forum hosted by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) said Friday.

As generative AI rapidly evolves from a conversational assistant into a technology capable of executing increasingly sophisticated tasks, businesses now face the challenge of transforming decades-old workflows and adapt to the new AI era.

Wrtn AX CEO Park Min-jun said the focus of AI competition was shifting away from the technology itself toward organizational transformation.

The company is an enterprise-level AI agent solutions provider.

“For the past several years, businesses have largely competed by adopting increasingly capable large language models, but with leading models now approaching similar levels of performance in many business applications, competitive advantage will increasingly depend on how effectively companies reo ...