Kim Kyoung-hoon, head of OpenAI Korea, speaks throughout a press convention in Seoul, Thursday. Courtesy of OpenAI Korea
Kim Kyoung-hoon, the brand new head of OpenAI Korea, mentioned Thursday that the U.S.-based ChatGPT developer is shifting forward with its Stargate challenge, the corporate’s overarching synthetic intelligence (AI) infrastructure program, on a dual-track system in partnership with Samsung Group and SK Group.
“We’re continuing with two Stargate tasks,” Kim, who was lately appointed as basic supervisor at OpenAI Korea, mentioned in a press convention in downtown Seoul. “Coincidentally, our Stargate workforce from the U.S. headquarters got here to Korea this week and met with officers from our companions, Samsung and SK.”
In October, OpenAI signed separate preliminary agreements with Samsung and SK for the provision of reminiscence chips tied to the Stargate challenge, which goals to construct international AI infrastructure. The offers have been introduced throughout Chief Government Officer (CEO) Sam Altman’s go to to Seoul.
This system with SK Group contains plans to construct a knowledge heart within the nation’s southwestern area, whereas the partnership with Samsung covers the joint growth of experimental floating knowledge facilities.
“They’re at a really early or strategy planning stage,” Kim mentioned. “We’re nonetheless a startup, and we’re specializing in increasing collaboration as we push ahead with this infrastructure-building challenge.”
To mark the third anniversary of ChatGPT’s launch, Kim additionally highlighted how the AI chatbot has change into deeply built-in into day by day life in Korea, significantly in enterprise settings.
ChatGPT’s day by day message quantity in Korea reached 2.63 billion as of June this yr, up sharply from 450 million a yr earlier.
Doc translation and electronic mail writing account for 29 % of ChatGPT utilization in Korea, in contrast with about 30 % of world customers who depend on the service for train, well being and different way of life data.
“Koreans view ChatGPT as a enterprise companion sooner than some other nation on this planet,” he mentioned. “They use ChatGPT as a manner to enhance productiveness and effectivity.”
Kim added that the rising integration of AI into on a regular basis life, together with Korea’s utilization patterns, is anticipated to speed up company AI transformation within the nation.
“Most economically helpful actions happen inside companies. The optimistic financial results of AI will be realized by means of company AI transformation,” he mentioned. “OpenAI Korea will change into the very best companion for Korean corporations in supporting their AI transformation.”
