At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners

<div id="bsf_rt_marker"></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building on NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s </span><a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/korea-ecosystem-2026/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">visit to Korea last month</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, 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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To start, NVIDIA and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) </span><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-kaist-launch-joint-ai-research-lab-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea"><span style="font-weight: 400;">today announced</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The collaboration will establish a robust academic AI research program, bringing together NVIDIA full-stack AI expertise, </span><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ai-data-science/foundation-models/nemotron/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA Nemotron</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> open models and NVIDIA AI Cloud partner computing with the world-class scientific talent at KAIST, one of Asia’s premier research universities.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p> <hr /> <p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thursday, July 23, 9 p.m. PT</span></i></p> <h3><b>NVIDIA and SK Celebrate Longstanding Collaboration Over Dinner</b></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">NVIDIA and SK — which have had a longstanding partnership — </span><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/sk-hynix-ai-factory"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced in June</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> an expanded collaboration to codevelop memory for NVIDIA platforms spanning AI infrastructure, personal AI and physical AI. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also in June, SK Telecom </span><a target="_blank" href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/sk-hynix-ai-factory"><span style="font-weight: 400;">announced plans</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to build AI infrastructure to power Korea’s innovation in physical AI, robotics and more.</span></p> <p><em>Learn more about <a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/korea-ecosystem-2026/">NVIDIA<span style="font-weight: 400;">’s</span> work with Korea ecosystem partners</a>.</em></p>