South Korea’s Lee outlines AI supply-chain vision in San Francisco talks with OpenAI and Nvidia

SAN FRANCISCO — Chiefs of Korean tech giants, such as Samsung Electronics, met with Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvida, Friday, to discuss cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) and other fields. Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung and Lee Hae-jin, founder of South Korea's top portal operator Naver, visited Nvidia's headquarters to meet Huang, according to the companies. Details of each meeting were not immediately unveiled, but they are presumed to have discussed their cooperation and investment plans between Nvidia and Korean companies. On Thursday, Huang also met with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to expand their business cooperation. The Korean business leaders are accompanying President Lee Jae Myung, who was visiting to promote the country's AI vision and business cooperation with global Big Tech firms, on his way to South America. They also attended a Korean government-backed summit meeting with leaders of global big tech firms, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Broadcom CEO Hock

SAN FRANCISCO — President Lee Jae Myung declared a vision Friday to make Korea a trustworthy production base and supply partner for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors, vowing to lead the country into a key global player in the AI supply chain. The president made the remarks as he unveiled his "San Francisco AI Declaration" at a high-level meeting in the namesake city that brought together the chiefs of global tech firms and the heads of South Korean conglomerates, including Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also attended the meeting. "South Korea will make a leap forward to become an irreplaceable, core nation in the AI supply chain," Lee said. "Based on the world's highest-level competitiveness and production capacity in memory semiconductors we have, (Korea) will become a trustworthy AI chip production base and supply chain partner," the president said. The declaration came as Seoul seeks to provide further momentum after growing global demand for semico

SAN FRANCISCO — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with the heads of four global tech giants, including Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, on Friday and called for their greater participation in South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) investment plans. The meetings took place on the first day of Lee's two-day trip to San Francisco aimed at promoting AI investment and cooperation between global tech giants and South Korea. Lee also met separately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. During his meeting with Huang, the South Korean president praised him as being at the forefront of a "fundamental shift" taking place around the world and introduced South Korea's recently announced large-scale investment plans to build a semiconductor production cluster and AI data centers. The plans aim to provide further momentum after growing global demand for semiconductors amid the AI boom has helped push South Korean into becoming one of the world's major chip supply hubs. Lee expressed hope that the Nvidia CEO will play a greater role

SAN FRANCISCO — Chiefs of South Korean big tech companies, such as Samsung Electronics, met with Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvida, Friday, to discuss cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) and other fields. Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung and Lee Hae-jin, founder of South Korea's top portal operator Naver, visited Nvidia's headquarters to meet Huang, according to the companies. Details of each meeting were not immediately unveiled, but they are presumed to have discussed their cooperation and investment plans between Nvidia and South Korean companies. On Thursday, Huang also met with SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to expand their business cooperation. The South Korean business leaders are accompanying President Lee Jae Myung, who was visiting to promote the country's AI vision and business cooperation with global big tech firms, on his way to South America. They also attended a South Korean government-backed summit meeting with leaders of global big tech firms, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dar

SAN FRANCISCO — President Lee Jae Myung declared a vision Friday to make South Korea a trustworthy production base and supply partner for artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors, vowing to lead the country into a key global player in the AI supply chain. The president made the remarks as he unveiled his "San Francisco AI Declaration" at a high-level meeting in the namesake city that brought together the chiefs of global tech firms and the heads of South Korean conglomerates, including Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won. OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang also attended the meeting. "South Korea will make a leap forward to become an irreplaceable, core nation in the AI supply chain," Lee said. "Based on the world's highest-level competitiveness and production capacity in memory semiconductors we have, (South Korea) will become a trustworthy AI chip production base and supply chain partner," the president said.