"Jae-yong, Tae-won, Come to the US This Time"... Jensen Huang and Tycoons to Meet Again a Month After "Sam-Soo Gathering"

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who recently visited South Korea in succession and met with major conglomerate heads, is understood to be meeting with Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, and Naver Global Investment Officer (GIO) Lee Hae-jin in the United States this time.

This meeting is aimed at strengthening cooperation in memory and AI businesses, and industry sources report that a roundtable-style gathering among leaders from Samsung, SK, Naver, and NVIDIA is being promoted near Silicon Valley in the U.S. this week.

The meeting is reportedly likely to take place on the 24th.

A plan where Chairman Lee, Chairman Chey, and Mr. Lee along with CEO Huang attend together is prominent, and additionally, the possibility of AI company heads such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei attending is also being discussed.

In the business community, it is evaluated that if this meeting is successfully held, it will mark practically the first time top corporate leaders from various sectors of the global AI market, including memory, GPUs, and generative AI services, gather in one place.

In particular, CEO Huang visited South Korea last month and met with key domestic business figures from Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, LG, and Naver for the so-called "Sam-Soo gathering," and meeting again just about a month later effectively underscores his emphasis on partnerships with South Korean companies.

OpenAI and Anthropic are considered the most influential companies leading the generative AI market with ChatGPT and Claude, respectively.

It is analyzed that core companies in their respective fields—Samsung and SK in memory, NVIDIA in AI chips such as GPUs, and Naver, OpenAI, and Anthropic in generative AI services—are going all-out to strengthen their alliance in the AI market.

Some also view that this meeting could yield a future blueprint to dispel ongoing concerns about a semiconductor and AI peak-out.

Reported by Kim Taewon | Video by Lee Eui-seon | Graphics by Yook Do-hyun | Produced by SBS Digital News
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