Oct. 1 (UPI) -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed partnership deals for artificial intelligence with SK Hynix and Samsung during a visit to South Korea Wednesday.
The partnerships will allow the two companies to supply AI-specific memory chips for the Stargate project, a $500 billion venture between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank for AI infrastructure in the United States.
The meeting also included President Lee Jae Myung at the presidential office in Seoul. Altman and Lee reached an agreement to set up two new AI data centers. Korea has growing AI demands and not enough computing power to meet them. ChatGPT's popularity has spiked in Korea, where its monthly active users were more than 20 million in August.
"We're very excited to get to build Stargate Korea and data centers with our wonderful partners to support the sovereign AI needs of Korea," Altman said.
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