OpenAI, South Korea and Samsung
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed partnership deals for artificial intelligence with SK Hynix and Samsung in a visit to Korea Wednesday. He met with President Lee.
According to the sources, six research and development (R&D) staff from OpenAI visited Samsung Electronics' Pyeongtaek Campus, the company's largest chip plant located about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on Wednesday. The site produces about half of Samsung Electronics' dynamic random access memory (DRAM) wafers.
South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the nation's major tech players like LG and SK Telecom develop their own LLMs.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly held secretive meetings with TSMC and Foxconn in Taiwan as he looks to secure chip production for future facilities and his own internal chip design plans.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix surge on OpenAI partnership, driving record KOSPI index growth and boosting market capitalization.