On Tuesday, 04 February, 2025, in South Korea, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed a contract with tech giant Kakao. As the US firm searches for new liaisons after Chinese rival DeepSeek flirts with the global AI industry.
Kakao, which is an online bank, South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app, and KakaoTalk, proclaimed a partnership and enabled the use of ChatGPT for its latest artificial intelligence services. In this sector, they are ready to join a global association led by OpenAI amid intensifying challenges.
US President Donald Trump to commit up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in the United States announced that Altman’s company which is a segment of the Stargate drive.
However, AI novice Deepseek has dispatched Silicon Valley into a frenzy, for US developers Some have called its high performance and low cost a wake-up call.As well on Altman’s agenda were summits with two top South Korean chipmakers, Samsung and SK Hynix; both are the key transfer of advanced semiconductors, which are used in AI services.
To discuss coordination on AI memory chips, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and AI services, Altman met with SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won and SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung in Seoul.
The performance of DeepSeek has initiated a wave of accusations that have reverse-engineered the capabilities of leading US technology, such as the AI powering ChatGPT.
The company itself is facing numerous grievances of intellectual property infringement, primarily related to the use of copyrighted material in training its generative AI models.
Source: The Daily Star
