Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, will meet Park Jeong-won, chairman of Doosan Group, on the third day of his visit to Korea, on the 7th. As collaboration with Nvidia has been mentioned in the field of physical AI at Doosan, attention is focused on the meeting between the two.
According to the business community, Huang will take the mound as the ceremonial first pitcher at a game between the Doosan Bears and the Kiwoom Heroes at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the afternoon of the 7th. Chairman Park will take a ceremonial swing at the plate.
Huang will wear a Doosan uniform with the number 93, signifying 1993, the year Nvidia was founded. Park, the owner of the Doosan Bears, is expected to step into the batter's box wearing a No. 96 uniform, signifying 1896, the year Doosan was founded.
With Huang handling the first pitch and Park the ceremonial hit, the event can be seen as one that showcases the companies' future collaboration. The two companies already said last year they would pursue cooperation to apply artificial intelligence (AI) technology to construction equipment, power generation facilities and robots. The goal is to build a Doosan-specific model tailored to industrial sites by combining industrial data that Doosan has accumulated over decades with Nvidia's physical AI models.
Earlier, Madison Huang, senior director of Omniverse and Robotics product marketing and Huang's daughter, visited the Doosan Robotics Innovation Center in April and discussed technical cooperation plans between the two companies. At the time, the two companies discussed integrating Nvidia's AI and robotics ecosystem with the intelligent robot solutions and industrial humanoids under development at Doosan Robotics. The companies aim to build a robot execution platform that can be applied to real industrial sites.
Meanwhile, Huang is also scheduled to meet with key game company officials on the 7th, including Kim Taek-jin, CEO of NCSOFT, and Jang Byung-kyu, chairman of Craston.