Openai said Tuesday that he will develop artificial intelligence products (AI) for South Korea with the Chat Kakao application operator, presenting an important second alliance with a high -profile Asian partner this week.
On a Torbellino tour of Asia, the executive president of Operai, Sam Altman, also announced an association with the Japan Softbank group on Monday and, according to Fuentes, is scheduled to visit India on Wednesday, where he seeks to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Like SoftBank, Kakao said he would use the technology developed by Chatgpt’s creator for his products.
Kakao operates the dominant messaging application of South Korea Kakotalk, which has a broad participation in the domestic market of 97 percent and has expanded to areas such as electronic commerce, payments and games.
He has positioned AI as a new growth engine, but analysts say it has been left behind the local rival Naver in AI’s career.
“We are particularly interested in AI and messages,” Altman told a joint press conference with the Kakao CEO, Chung Shina, in Seoul.
Altman also said that many Korean companies will be important taxpayers to the Stargate Data Center, a company between Openai and Oracle to develop AI capacity in the United States. He refused to elaborate, saying that he wants to maintain the confidentiality of the association conversations.
The OpenAI CEO met the president of the SK group, Chey Tae-Won, on Tuesday. He also plans to meet the president of Samsung, Jay Y. Lee, and the SoftBank Group Masayoshi CEO are in Seoul later in the day, Maeil Business Newspaper reported.
They are Tuesday told journalists who would discuss updates on Stargate and “potential cooperation” with Samsung, since it entered the Samsung office in Seoul.
When asked if he will request Samsung’s investment in the project, he said: “Nothing specific”, adding that cooperation conversations have to begin.
Both SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics produce high -band -width memory chips used in AI processors.
Samsung and Softbank declined to comment on the meeting.
Last month, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the private sector investment of up to $ 500 billion to finance the AI infrastructure, noting that the AI products market was growing “super fast.”
When asked if Operai was looking to join and invest in the South Korean AI Computing Center, Altman said the US company was “actively considering” such movement.
Last month, the South Korean government said it planned to build plans from the National Computing Center AI for the Stargate Data Center project.
“There are so many things that are happening in Korea that will be criticism for that,” said Altman.
He added that the Energy, Semiconductor and Internet companies of Korea made the country an important market for OpenAi, noting that the Korean demand that would resort to the investment of the public and private sectors worth up to 2 billion wones ($ 1.4 billion ).
Kakao’s shares rose 0.2 percent on Tuesday after increasing 9 percent on Monday.
