HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni: The Open-Source Any-to-Any Multimodal AI Unpacked

One Transformer, Three Modalities: Inside HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni (The Plain-English Walkthrough) “ Main keywords: HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni, any-to-any multimodal, text-image-speech model, 8-billion-parameter model, Korean-first AI, OmniServe inference, open-weight license Quick-glance answers (save you a scroll) Question Short answer What is it? An 8-billion-parameter decoder-only model that reads & writes text, images and speech in a single forward pass. Who should care? Teams that need Korean/English multimodal AI but only have 3–4 A100s, not 40. Is it really open? Weights are downloadable. Commercial use is allowed under NAVER’s custom license (credit + no illegal use). How big is the …