Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, will visit Korea on the 14th-15th. He will visit Samsung Electronics to give a special lecture and is expected to meet with executives of Naver and Kakao.
According to industry sources on the 11th, CEO Altman will visit on the 14th for a two-day, one-night trip. On the morning of the 15th, he will take part in the "DX Insight Talk" event at Samsung Electronics' Suwon campus. The event was organized as Samsung Group decided to apply external Generative AI services such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—previously used in a limited way—across all in-house work processes.
In an internal notice, Samsung Electronics said, "With the in-house adoption of external Generative AI services, we are now standing at a new starting line for the full-fledged use and spread of AI in our work," adding, "At this moment of another major change in our way of working, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will be with us at the starting point."
At the event, CEO Altman is expected to give a lecture on the changes AI advances will bring and the direction of AI-based work innovation. Earlier, Samsung declared an "AI grand transformation" to fundamentally innovate its way of working and organizational culture by fully introducing AI into all tasks across its affiliates.
The Samsung Electronics DX institutional sector will officially introduce three enterprise AI services—ChatGPT, Gemini Enterprise, and Claude—internally starting on the 12th.
Afterward, CEO Altman is said to meet with Chung Shin-a, CEO of Kakao, to discuss additional cooperation plans between the two companies. Kakao has continued AI service collaboration with OpenAI, including launching the "ChatGPT for Kakao" service that integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT into KakaoTalk last year.
A visit to Naver is also reportedly being coordinated.
It has been about eight months since CEO Altman last visited Korea in October of last year. He will arrive on the afternoon of the 14th and depart on the evening flight on the 15th.