LG and NVIDIA Strengthen Next-Generation AI Alliance by Uniting 'One LG' Capabilities (Comprehensive)

Expanding Mid- to Long-Term Partnership from Physical AI to Mobility
Unifying LG's Company-Wide Capabilities in Home Appliances, Robotics, Automotive Electronics, Communications, and Batteries
Technical Collaboration Including Blackwell GPUs to Adva

LG Group and Nvidia are set to significantly expand their strategic collaboration across next-generation AI-based industries, including physical artificial intelligence (AI), AI infrastructure (AIDC), and mobility.

On the 8th, Kwangmo Koo, CEO of LG Corporation (left), and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia (right), are taking a commemorative photo at the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul. LG Corporation

On June 8, LG announced that it held an executive meeting at the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul, attended by Kwangmo Koo, CEO of LG Corporation, and Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. The meeting was also joined by Jaecheol Ryu, President of LG Electronics, and Madison Hwang, Senior Director of Omniverse and Robotics Product Marketing at Nvidia.

According to LG, this meeting followed a major business leaders’ dinner attended by CEO Koo and CEO Huang on June 5, and was arranged to expand the scope of mid- to long-term collaboration as strategic partners leading industrial innovation in the AI era.

CEO Koo stated, "I had a very exciting discussion with CEO Huang about strategic cooperation that will transform future industries," adding, "Nvidia’s blueprint for the AI ecosystem aligns perfectly with LG’s vision of creating meaningful change for customers' lives and global industry." He further emphasized, "With today’s meeting as a starting point, we will further solidify our 'partnership for the future' by combining the unique capabilities of both companies."

CEO Huang commented, "Korea has outstanding competitiveness in manufacturing, mechatronics, and AI, and the combination of these strengths will make robotics and physical AI Korea’s core growth industries." He continued, "Through Nvidia DSX (AI factory design architecture) and the physical AI platform, LG can expand its leadership beyond homes and vehicles to factories and AI infrastructure, creating new growth opportunities in intelligent systems that will transform both daily life and industry."

As the two companies pursue a 'win-win' strategy in the field of physical AI from manufacturing to robotics, LG will promote collaboration under the 'One LG' system, bringing together the capabilities of its major affiliates. LG will also strengthen its partnership for joint development of Nvidia’s reference robots based on Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T ecosystem.

Furthermore, LG Electronics will expand its strategic cooperation with Nvidia throughout the entire development process in next-generation robotics, including humanoid and logistics robots, covering data collection, simulation, training, and behavior. By leveraging core AI and robotics platforms such as Nvidia Isaac, GR00T, and Cosmos, LG will enhance robot development efficiency and continuously improve performance.

LG Innotek will serve as the "eyes" of the robot, utilizing its world-class optical technology to develop high-performance sensing modules and optical components optimized for Nvidia’s AI chip architecture.

LG CNS is building an ecosystem where anyone can easily introduce AI robots on manufacturing and logistics sites. By integrating Nvidia robotics technology into its industrial robot platform, PhysicalWorks, LG CNS will accelerate the AI transformation of logistics and manufacturing sites.

Additionally, by combining LG’s manufacturing expertise and data with Nvidia’s AI computing and digital twin technologies, the two companies plan to establish an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem in which all processes—from raw material procurement to production, logistics, and customer delivery—are connected in real time through data and AI. This will set a new standard for global smart factories.

After the meeting, CEO Huang told reporters, "One of the most important fields in which we are working together is robotics. LG’s AI researchers are truly outstanding, and we will closely collaborate in motor technology and mechanical systems to shape the future of robotics, including humanoid robots."

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, arrives at the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 8th, waving his hand in greeting. Photo by Yonhap News.

The companies will also expand cooperation in next-generation AI infrastructure that underpins the AI era. LG Electronics will work with Nvidia not only on certification for cooling solutions such as coolant distribution units (CDUs) and cold plates for AI infrastructure thermal management, but also on modular prefab design technologies tailored to Nvidia’s DSX reference designs, further enhancing its AI infrastructure capabilities. This collaboration with Nvidia DSX will enable rapid deployment and scalability of high-performance supercomputing infrastructure.

LG Uplus and LG CNS plan to build next-generation AI factories with enhanced scalability and energy efficiency by applying Nvidia’s DSX AI Factory reference design.

LG Energy Solution is discussing collaboration on 800V direct current (DC)-based data center power solutions, in line with Nvidia’s BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) validation guidelines, to address the increasing power demand of next-generation GPU servers. Through this, the company aims to improve energy efficiency at AI data centers and secure leadership in the next-generation data center energy market.

Technological convergence is also underway to accelerate the realization of safe and intelligent autonomous driving and software-defined vehicles (SDVs). LG Electronics will enhance its next-generation mobility AI systems, including advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), by integrating its own in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) capabilities with Nvidia’s autonomous driving platform, DRIVE Hyperion.

LG Innotek will expand development optimized for Nvidia’s DRIVE architecture, leveraging its world-class competitiveness in communication modules, sensing solutions, and automotive lighting systems.

Technical cooperation is also being strengthened to enhance domestic AI competitiveness. The LG AI Research Institute plans to improve training efficiency and inference performance in the EXAONE upgrade process by utilizing Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs, the NeMo Framework AI development platform, and TensorRT-LLM inference optimization software. In addition, the Institute will use Nvidia’s Nemotron open dataset to improve AI model data training quality. Nvidia will also support the acceleration of AX across all business areas of LG Group, along with the operation of the LG AI Research Institute’s Sovereign AI model.

An LG official stated, "This meeting is significant in that it brings together Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI technology, which leads the global AI ecosystem, and LG’s manufacturing and infrastructure capabilities, which can implement AI into customers’ daily lives and industrial sites both quickly and with high quality." The official added, "Collaboration between LG, which has decades of manufacturing innovation know-how and a vast life data asset accumulated from global customer touchpoints, and Nvidia, a leader in AI computing and platforms, is expected to accelerate global AI innovation across both industry and daily life."

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