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

South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and business leaders met with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners at the AI Summit in San Francisco to advance Korea's AI infrastructure and expertise. NVIDIA and KAIST announced a joint AI research lab in Seoul, the first between a Korean university and a global tech company, focused on agentic AI. NVIDIA and SK Group also celebrated their expanded collaboration on memory for AI infrastructure, personal AI, and physical AI.

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