At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners
NVIDIA Blog · NVIDIA Writers · 2026-07-24
South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and top Korean business leaders met with NVIDIA at a San Francisco AI Summit to advance Korea's AI infrastructure, including a first-of-its-kind joint research lab with KAIST and expanded memory co-development with SK Group.
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- NVIDIA and KAIST announced a joint AI research lab at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI in Seoul, described as the first such lab between a Korean university and any global technology company.
- South Korean President Jae Myung Lee participated in the AI Summit in San Francisco alongside top Korean business leaders to chart Korea's path toward becoming a global AI hub.
- NVIDIA and SK Group expanded their collaboration in June to co-develop memory for NVIDIA platforms spanning AI infrastructure, personal AI, and physical AI.
- SK Telecom announced plans to build AI infrastructure to support Korea's development in physical AI and robotics.
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It's the first joint AI lab between a Korean university and any global technology company.
The collaboration will establish a robust academic AI research program, bringing together NVIDIA full-stack AI expertise, NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA AI Cloud partner computing with the world-class scientific talent at KAIST, one of Asia's premier research universities.