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South Korean technology firms AI expansion

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South Korean technology companies are expanding their involvement in artificial intelligence (AI) through international strategic partnerships and domestic industrial applications. In the United States, Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin participated in the launch of the ‘Foundry School’ in Washington, D.C., ~~an initiative supported by the U.S. Department of State~~ to ~~develop talent in advanced industries and~~ strengthen the AI supply chain. ~~This event, which included U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, focused on the ‘Pax Silica’ strategy to reorganize technology supply chains among trusted allies.~~ Shinsegae is also collaborating with Reflection AI on a ~~project to establish an~~ South Korean AI data center ~~in South Korea, marking the first project under the U.S. Department of State’s ‘AI Export Program.’~~ project. LG CNS ~~has engaged with researchers from major U.S. universities, such as Stanford and UC Berkeley, to recruit~~ is recruiting multidisciplinary talent for ~~integrating~~ AI and ~~robotics.~~ robotics, while LG has launched initiatives like the ‘LG Aimers Hackathon’ to focus on predictive AI. Samsung SDS is accelerating its AI transformation (AX) ~~strategy,~~ strategy by employing a ‘client zero’ ~~strategy~~ approach to test solutions ~~internally before deployment. Samsung SDS~~ internally. The company has ~~also~~ joined OpenAI’s ‘Daybreak Partner Program’ to integrate frontier models into cybersecurity and ~~expanded~~ is expanding its partnership with ~~Anthropic.~~ Anthropic to adopt Claude models. Samsung Electronics is ~~further strengthening~~ deepening ties with OpenAI, with expectations ~~that it will~~ to supply sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) to for OpenAI’s ‘Jalapeño’ AI inference chip project. At the ‘Samsung AI Forum 2026’, the company highlighted a shift toward ‘agentic AI’—systems capable of autonomous decision-making—and ‘physical AI’. To support hyperscale ~~data centers and power generation,~~ infrastructure, six Samsung ~~affiliates—including Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance—have~~ affiliates have committed ~~a combined~~ $1 billion to Helix Digital ~~Infrastructure. Samsung Electronics is contributing $500 million to the venture, which was founded by KKR and is~~ Infrastructure, a US-based firm led by former ~~Amazon Web Services~~ AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. ~~Helix provides integrated solutions across the value chain, including electricity production~~ This investment aims to address bottlenecks in power and ~~fiber optic networks,~~ data center capacity. Separately, SK Telecom subsidiary SK Hyper is seeking approximately $350 billion to ~~meet increasing AI demand.~~ fund a massive 15-gigawatt data center buildout in South Korea, targeting completion by 2035.

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