SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won holds a lunch meeting with Sam Altman... Pay attention to AI cooperation

Major executives including SK Hynix and SK Telecom also attended.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kang Tae-woo = SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won had a lunch meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who visited Korea.

According to the business world on the 31st, Chairman Choi met with CEO Altman somewhere in Seoul and had lunch. It is reported that key executives from SK Hynix and SK Telecom also attended the event.

Although the specific details of the discussion are not known, it is possible that the two sides shared opinions centered on existing cooperation projects such as supplying high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and building artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

SK Group and Open AI signed a strategic partnership to build a global AI infrastructure in October last year and agreed to cooperate in supplying memory semiconductors and building a domestic AI data center.

At that time, the two companies met at SK Seorin Building in Jongno-gu, Seoul and signed a letter of intent (LOI) for memory supply and a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation in AI data centers in the southwest region.

Accordingly, SK decided to participate as a key partner in the 'Stargate' project, a large-scale AI infrastructure construction project promoted by Open AI.

In particular, SK Hynix presented a plan to build a production system that could respond to HBM supply requests of up to 900,000 DRAM wafers per month at the time.

SK Telecom and Open AI decided to jointly build an AI data center in the southwestern region and, based on this, cooperate in discovering AI use cases for companies and consumers and developing next-generation data center technology.

Chairman Choi and CEO Altman have continued to interact continuously since then.

The two also met at the 'AI Summit' held in San Francisco, USA in July of this year and exchanged opinions on the direction of long-term cooperation in the AI ​​infrastructure field.