# Nvidia CEO announces expanded partnerships with South Korean tech companies > Source: > Published: 2026-07-25 19:00:00+00:00 *Become a member of GB MAX to gain exclusive access to the industry and to the most influential global B2B leadership community in the business of gaming, entertainment, and tech.* [Join now](https://go.gamesbeat.com/gb-max/)and also get a VIP ticket to GamesBeat Next (Nov 2-3, SF).At the Korea AI summit in San Francisco, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced expanded partnerships with Korea’s technology leaders during the event with South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and several of the country’s top business leaders. Building on Huang’s [visit to Korea last month](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/korea-ecosystem-2026/), today’s 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. [SK Group and Nvidia Expand Strategic Partnership Across AI Factories and Next-Generation Memory](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/sk-group-and-nvidia-expand-strategic-partnership-across-ai-factories-and-next-generation-memory)[NAVER, Nvidia and Brookfield to Expand Korea’s National AI Factory Infrastructure Buildout](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/naver-nvidia-and-brookfield-to-expand-koreas-national-ai-factory-infrastructure-buildout)[Nvidia and KAIST Launch Joint AI Research Lab to Accelerate AI Innovation in Korea](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-kaist-launch-joint-ai-research-lab-to-accelerate-ai-innovation-in-korea) Korean business leaders from Samsung, Hyundai Motor Group and NAVER were among those who met with Huang today at Nvidia’s Endeavor building. Such ties are important since South Korean memory chip makers supply a lot of memory to go with Nvidia’s AI chips, which are in an unprecedented boom. 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](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/open-models/) and Nvidia AI Cloud partner computing with the world-class scientific talent at KAIST, one of Asia’s premier research universities. NAVER, Brookfield and Nvidia [will expand](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/naver-nvidia-and-brookfield-to-expand-koreas-national-ai-factory-infrastructure-buildout) NAVER’s Nvidia DSX AI factory at its GAK Sejong data center to 200 megawatts — roughly 100,000 GPUs, built on the Nvidia Vera Rubin platform — more than tripling the [initial buildout announced in June](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/naver-ai-infrastructure). Plus, SK Group and Nvidia [today announced](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/sk-group-and-nvidia-expand-strategic-partnership-across-ai-factories-and-next-generation-memory) plans for a $500-billion-plus comprehensive partnership to establish AI infrastructure serving the surging demand for global compute. Broadening [initial plans announced in June](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/sk-telecom-ai-infrastructure), the expanded collaboration will deploy Nvidia Vera Rubin infrastructure powered by SK hynix HBM4 memory. And Hyundai Motor Group outlined a physical AI strategy anchored by a robot reference platform developed with Nvidia, extending a buildout with 50,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The collaboration also includes the integration of Nvidia DRIVE Hyperion — an autonomous vehicle development platform combining Nvidia DRIVE AGX in-vehicle computing running