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 Advance AI ‘EXAONE’

LG Group and NVIDIA are significantly expanding their strategic cooperation 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 Koo Kwangmo, CEO of LG Corporation, and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. The meeting was also attended by Ryu Jaechul, President of LG Electronics, and Madison Hwang, Senior Director of Product Marketing for Omniverse and Robotics at NVIDIA.

According to LG, this meeting followed a dinner held on June 5 for major company leaders, including CEO Koo and CEO Huang. It was arranged to expand the scope of mid- to long-term cooperation as strategic partners driving industrial innovation in the AI era.

Koo stated, "I had a very exciting discussion with CEO Huang about strategic cooperation that will transform future industries," and added, "NVIDIA's blueprint for the AI ecosystem aligns with LG’s vision to create meaningful change in customers' daily lives and the global industrial landscape." He emphasized, "Through today’s meeting, we will further solidify our 'partnership for the future' by combining the unique strengths of both companies."

Huang commented, "Korea possesses outstanding competitiveness in manufacturing, mechatronics, and AI. The combination of these strengths will make robotics and physical AI core growth industries for Korea." 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 both companies pursue a 'win-win' strategy in the field of physical AI, spanning from manufacturing to robotics, LG is promoting cooperation under a 'One LG' system that brings together the capabilities of its major affiliates. LG will intensify its collaboration to jointly develop NVIDIA’s reference robots based on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T ecosystem.

LG Electronics will also expand its strategic cooperation with NVIDIA throughout the entire development process of next-generation robots, including humanoid and logistics robots, from data construction, simulation, and training to operation. By utilizing NVIDIA’s core AI and robotics platforms such as Isaac, GR00T, and Cosmos, the efficiency and performance of robot development will be continuously enhanced.

LG Innotek will serve as the 'eyes' of robots, leveraging 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 that enables anyone to easily introduce AI robots in manufacturing and logistics environments. By integrating NVIDIA’s robotics technology with the industrial robot platform PhysicalWorks, the company is further advancing the platform to accelerate AI transformation in logistics and manufacturing sites.

Furthermore, by combining LG’s manufacturing expertise and data with NVIDIA’s AI computing and digital twin technologies, the companies plan to establish an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem where data and AI are connected in real time across all processes, from raw material procurement to production, logistics, and customer delivery. This will be positioned as a new global standard for smart factories.

After the meeting, Huang told reporters, "One of the most important areas we are cooperating on is robotics," adding, "LG's AI researchers are truly outstanding, and we will work closely together in motor technology and mechanical systems to shape the future of robotics, including humanoids."

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 two companies are also expanding cooperation in next-generation AI infrastructure to support the AI era. LG Electronics will further enhance its AI infrastructure capabilities through certified cooling solutions for AI infrastructure thermal management, such as coolant distribution units (CDU) and cold plates, as well as collaboration on modular prefab design technology tailored to NVIDIA’s DSX reference design. This will enable rapid deployment and scalability of high-performance supercomputing infrastructure in connection with NVIDIA DSX.

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

LG Energy Solution is discussing cooperation on 800V direct current (DC)-based data center power solutions in accordance with NVIDIA’s BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) validation guidelines, in response to rising power demand from next-generation GPU servers. The goal is to improve energy efficiency at AI data centers and secure an early lead in the next-generation data center energy market.

Technological convergence is also underway to accelerate safe and intelligent autonomous driving and software-defined vehicle (SDV) implementation. LG Electronics will enhance its next-generation mobility AI systems, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), by combining its proprietary 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 global competitiveness in core automotive components such as communication modules, sensing solutions, and vehicle lighting systems.

Technical cooperation to strengthen domestic AI competitiveness will also be reinforced. LG AI Research will use NVIDIA’s latest GPUs (Blackwell), AI development platforms (NeMo Framework), and inference acceleration software (TensorRT-LLM) to improve training efficiency and inference performance during the enhancement of EXAONE. Additionally, LG AI Research will utilize NVIDIA’s Nemotron open dataset to improve AI model training data quality. NVIDIA will support the operation of LG AI Research’s Sovereign AI model and accelerate AX across all business areas of LG Group.

An LG official stated, "This meeting is significant because it combines NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI technologies, which lead the global AI ecosystem, with LG’s manufacturing and infrastructure capabilities that can implement AI in daily life and industry with speed and excellence. The collaboration between LG, which possesses decades of manufacturing innovation know-how and vast life data assets accumulated from global customer touchpoints, and NVIDIA, which leads AI computing and platforms, is expected to accelerate global AI innovation across industry and daily life."

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