From left are OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Samsung Electronics President Kyung Kye-hyun. Yonhap Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, will visit Korea on Friday for a meeting with top executives from Samsung and SK, in a move to bolster alliances in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, according to industry officials, Tuesday. The U.S. entrepreneur is believed to be fine-tuning details of the potential meeting with Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong and SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won. OpenAI will discuss the joint development of artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors with the two Korean chipmakers, as part of a strategy to reduce its heavy reliance on Nvidia, the largest AI chip market player in the world. The AI mogul previously visited Korea last June. But this time, he will reportedly stay here for only around six hours and is expected to spend most of his time in closed-door meetings with the heads or other high-profile officials of the Korean chipmakers. Altman delivered his keen interest in deepening ties with local startups and chipmakers so OpenAI can develop large language models (LLM) which power ChatGPT. The company unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, its latest model, at the end of last year, and is on track to further upgrade its services. To ensure a smooth expansion, OpenAI needs to secure more state-of-the-art AI chips. It remains unclear whether Altman and Lee will meet, according to Samsung Electronics. But the head of the AI platform is widely forecast to meet with Kyung Kye-hyun, president of Samsung’s chip unit, and a group of other ranking executives in charge of the memory chip and foundry operations. “We cannot share specific business schedules of our top management,” an official at Samsung Electronics said. A spokesman at SK Group also did not confirm whether […]
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