Korea's top biz leaders to meet Nvidia CEO in US

The heads of Korean firms Samsung Electronics, SK Group and Naver are expected to meet with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Silicon Valley in the United States this week, marking a rare gathering of global artificial intelligence (AI) industry leaders.

A roundtable-style meeting between Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, Naver Board Chair Lee Hae-jin and Huang is expected to take place on Friday (local time), with discussions expected to focus on ways to strengthen cooperation in memory chips, graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure and generative AI services amid growing demand for AI technologies.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are also expected to attend, further elevating the significance of the meeting.

If confirmed, the gathering would be unprecedented, bringing together leaders of the world's two largest memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK Group's SK hynix, AI chip leader Nvidia, and generative AI developers Naver, OpenAI and Anthropic.

Just over a month ago, Huang visited Korea and held separate me ...