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

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South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and leading Korean business executives flew to San Francisco for an AI summit with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners this week, building on Jensen Huang's visit to Korea last month. The headline announcement: NVIDIA and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) established the first joint AI research lab between a Korean university and any global technology company, dedicated to agentic AI research. The lab will combine NVIDIA's full-stack AI toolkit — including Nemotron open models and NVIDIA AI Cloud — with KAIST's research talent at its Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI in Seoul. Separately, NVIDIA and SK Group celebrated an expanded collaboration. SK hynix, SK Telecom, and NVIDIA had already announced in June a co-development deal for next-generation memory for NVIDIA platforms spanning AI infrastructure, personal AI, and physical AI. SK Telecom also announced plans in June to build AI infrastructure for physical AI and robotics in Korea. The summit represents a national-level commitment: Korea is pursuing a full-stack AI strategy encompassing chips (SK hynix HBM), models (via KAIST research), telecom infrastructure (SK Telecom), and government backing. No financial figures were disclosed for the KAIST lab or SK expanded deals.