Jensen Huang: "Building a Large-Scale AI Cloud in Korea... Physical AI and Nemotron Collaboration" (Comprehensive)

Visit to Naver 1784 Headquarters... Welcome Event with Chairman Lee

"Collaboration on AI Cloud, Nemotron, and Physical AI"

Jensen Huang: "Naver will be ten times bigger once the AI factory is built"

Lee Haejin: "I'll buy samgyeopsal for Jensen Huang for life"

Live Broadcast Held on Chijijik

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, announced plans to build a large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) cloud in Korea and to strengthen collaboration with Naver during his visit to the Naver headquarters. The two companies are also set to cooperate in fields such as large language models (LLMs), AI cloud, and physical AI.

On a live broadcast held at the Naver headquarters on June 8, Huang stated, "We plan to build a massive AI cloud in Korea and around the world."

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, visited Naver’s 1784 building in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 8th and shook hands with Naver Chairman Lee Hae-jin. Photo by Yonhap News

That afternoon, Huang visited Naver 1784, Naver's headquarters located in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. He was greeted in person by Naver Chairman Lee Haejin, Naver CEO Choi Sooyoun, and Naver Cloud CEO Kim Yuwon. Joining Huang from NVIDIA was his eldest daughter, Madison Huang, Senior Director of Omniverse and Robotics Product Marketing.

During a Q&A session, Huang outlined three main areas of collaboration with Naver: the Nemotron Alliance, AI cloud, and physical AI.

Huang explained, "NVIDIA's Frontier AI Lab will work with Naver to build open AI models." The Nemotron Alliance, led by NVIDIA, is a coalition of 12 global AI companies, including Cursor, Mistral AI, and Perplexity. Naver will contribute to the development of open models through pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning processes.

Regarding the AI cloud, Huang said, "We plan to jointly build an AI factory with a capacity of 200 megawatts (MW), and later expand it to 1 gigawatt (GW). Naver is already the largest cloud service provider in Korea, and the two companies will collaborate to build the AI cloud."

In the robotics sector, Huang stated, "Physical AI is an area where Korea has an incredible competitive advantage. Naver has been building robotic systems for a long time, and we will work together with Naver to accelerate this."

Explaining the reason for partnering with Naver, Huang emphasized, "Naver possesses world-class AI and cloud technology. Even though Korea has a smaller population than other major countries, it has independently developed AI and cloud technologies. This is a truly remarkable accomplishment."

Chairman Lee highlighted Naver's strengths among domestic companies collaborating with NVIDIA, stating, "Naver is one of the first companies in the world to build a supercomputer based on GPUs. The fact that Naver is the only company in Korea capable of immediately meeting the rapidly growing demand in the AI market is the background behind NVIDIA's choice of Naver."

Huang remarked, "Once the AI factory is built, Naver will become at least ten times larger as a company," to which Chairman Lee responded, "From now on, whenever I eat samgyeopsal (grilled pork belly) with CEO Huang, I promise to always pay."

Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, is conducting a ceremony during a live broadcast on Naver's streaming platform Chijijik on the afternoon of the 8th. Screenshot from Chijijik

Later, Huang and Chairman Lee moved to 'Vision Stage,' an extended reality (XR) studio in the basement of the Naver headquarters, to host a live broadcast through Naver's streaming platform Chijijik. The broadcast attracted approximately 57,000 viewers in total.

During the broadcast, Huang praised Naver, saying, "Naver is Korea's first cloud company and the first AI company. My partnership with Naver has been a treasure to me for many years." Chairman Lee replied, "Naver was the first in the world to adopt NVIDIA's supercomputing infrastructure, SuperPOD. When you invited me to San Francisco last time, you shared a blueprint for our partnership."

Speaking about Korea's e-sports scene, Huang said, "Gaming was just a hobby, but it became a sport after passing through Korea. Now, gaming is not just about having fun, but is a very serious field where one must consider strategy, resource management, and teamwork. These are the three core elements that make up Chairman Lee's and my work." Huang and Chairman Lee then used the XR studio to change the background to an e-sports stadium and a soccer stadium, directly experiencing the XR features.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is greeting Lee Hae-jin, Chairman of Naver, during his visit to Naver Building 1784 in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province on the 8th. Photo by Yonhap News

Meanwhile, as part of a welcome event for Huang, Naver held an event where Huang and Chairman Lee personally wrote the final lines of Naver Webtoon's popular title "Overpowered Territory Architect." The two wrote messages of advice for the protagonist, who aspires to find both fulfillment in work and happiness. Huang wrote, "The more GPUs you have, the more you can work and the happier you can be," adding, "Both NVIDIA and Naver are working hard, and we are very happy."

Chairman Lee wrote, "Happiness is samgyeopsal, work is perilla leaves. Wrap them together and eat them in one bite," remarking, "Not long ago, we had a samgyeopsal dinner, so that memory is still fresh. I believe there is a good way to serve work and happiness together, without separating them."

News of Huang's visit quickly spread, and the Naver headquarters was soon filled with not only members of the press and Naver employees, but also ordinary citizens. People welcomed Huang, holding up signs greeting him.

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