U.S. chip giant Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (R), accompanied by Lee Hae-jin, founder and Chair of internet giant Naver Corp., acknowledge visitors during their meeting at the Naver headquarters in Seongnam, south of Seoul, South Korea, 08 June 2026. Photo by YONHAP / EPA
June 11 (Asia Today) -- Naver Cloud is accelerating its push into the defense artificial intelligence market, aiming to build a sovereign AI system that can analyze battlefield data and support real-world military operations.
The company said Wednesday it presented its defense AI strategy at the Korea Defense Industry Development Expo, held the previous day at the Daejeon Convention Center. The seminar, titled "Defense AI Transformation Strategy Based on Sovereign AI," was aimed at defense, arms industry and information technology officials.
Naver Cloud said it plans to combine omnimodal AI, dedicated defense data centers and a Forward Deployed Engineer system to build AI capabilities that can be used in actual operational environments.
Yoo Kyung-beom, an executive director at Naver Cloud, presented the company's full-stack sovereign AI capabilities, covering data centers, cloud infrastructure, AI models and services.
