OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visits South Korea to secure AI infrastructure partnerships with Samsung and KakaoTalk integration deals
The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman will travel to South Korea this week to attend a series of high level meetings to deepen partnerships with technology giants like Samsung and Kakao. This is reportedly Altman's second visit in just eight months and comes weeks after a visit from Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO), showing that South Korea is becoming a key player in the race for hardware and software infrastructure to support artificial intelligence technologies.
Altman is expected to travel mid week to discuss changing artificial intelligence landscape and future workplace innovation
in a presentation to the Samsung Electronics Device Experience division, followed by an in depth session with Samsung employees. On Altman's previous visit he met with Samsung Chairman Jay Y Lee and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae won and solidified a preliminary plan for Stargate
which will involve building a state of the art, worldwide AI infrastructure.
The OpenAI CEO will also meet privately with Kakao representative Shina Chung to potentially integrate KakaoTalk (South Korea's top messaging app) with OpenAI's generative artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. This would expose OpenAI's AI models to a large, existing network of users in a relevant sector.
Overall, these upcoming high profile meetings with leading South Korean tech giants emphasize the importance OpenAI places on the country's semiconductor production and software systems and observers will be keen to see if this results in formal chip manufacturing deals as global competition for AI processing power intensifies.
