At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart Korea’s AI progress.
Building on NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to Korea last month, this week’s discussions and announcements advance the nation’s full-stack push to expand Korea’s AI infrastructure and expertise on its path toward becoming a global center for AI innovation.
To start, NVIDIA and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) today announced a joint AI research lab at the KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI in Seoul, dedicated to advancing agentic AI for South Korea. It’s the first joint AI lab between a Korean university and any global technology company.
The collaboration will establish a robust academic AI research program, bringing together NVIDIA full-stack AI expertise, NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA AI Cloud partner computing with the world-class scientific talent at KAIST, one of Asia’s premier research universities.
Check back here for updates as the summit continues, including Huang’s meetings with President Lee as well as Korea and U.S. business leaders.
Friday, July 24, at 2:00 PT
Korean Tech Leaders Visit NVIDIA Santa Clara Campus
Samsung Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chairman and CEO Euisun Chung, and NAVER founder and Chairman Lee Hae-jin joined NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang on a tour of NVIDIA’s headquarters in Silicon Valley.
The Korean business leaders posed for photos with Huang in the lobby of NVIDIA’s Endeavor building — its angular design a nod to the triangles that are the building blocks of modern computer graphics — as employees worked at their desks around them.
Thursday, July 23, 9 p.m. PT
NVIDIA and SK Celebrate Longstanding Collaboration Over Dinner
On the eve of the summit, Huang, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, and the SK hynix, SK Telecom and NVIDIA teams gathered for dinner in Woodside, California — shown in the featured image above. It was a warm welcome to Silicon Valley on a warm summer evening for the Korean business leaders.
NVIDIA and SK — which have had a longstanding partnership — announced in June an expanded collaboration to codevelop memory for NVIDIA platforms spanning AI infrastructure, personal AI and physical AI.
Also in June, SK Telecom announced plans to build AI infrastructure to power Korea’s innovation in physical AI, robotics and more.
Learn more about NVIDIA’s work with Korea ecosystem partners.
