Samsung Leaders Discuss AI Strategy With OpenAI CEO

On the 31st, Samsung hosted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, for a meeting with affiliate leaders titled “The Next 10 Years AI Will Change: Choices for Businesses.” More than 50 executives from its electronics, finance and biotechnology affiliates discussed the direction of AI technology, potential uses, emerging markets and business opportunities. Topics also included AI’s effects on corporate decision-making and organizational operations, and the skills executives will need in a changing business environment.

The meeting continued cooperation between the two companies. Samsung Electronics and OpenAI signed a letter of intent last October to cooperate on building global AI infrastructure. Samsung Electronics has pursued supplying memory semiconductors for OpenAI’s Stargate project, a large-scale AI infrastructure initiative. Samsung SDS agreed to collaborate on AI data center construction and enterprise AI services, while Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries began joint development of offshore floating data centers. In July this year, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco.

Before the meeting, Samsung’s executives took hands-on training in generative AI. The session came four months after the company’s first intensive AI training in June. Participants practiced using AI to organize management materials into personal “knowledge repositories” and apply AI to decision-making. Samsung established the program as part of executive training for a company-wide AI transformation, or AX. Since June, it has been pursuing an “AI transformation” that brings AI into research and development, production, marketing and support work, with plans to raise productivity and business competitiveness and incorporate AI into products, services and company operations.

Samsung is planning training for about 2,300 executives following the session for affiliate leaders. It aims to extend the program to general employees and complete training for all employees by February 2027. Dedicated AI teams at each affiliate will support AX strategies tailored to their businesses, as well as the operation of data and AI models, and expand workplace use of external generative AI services. Samsung plans to review AX results at each affiliate, specify implementation tasks and establish an “AI-driven” management system across the group.

On the 31st, Samsung hosted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Samsung Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, for a meeting with affiliate leaders titled “The Next 10 Years AI Will Change: Choices for Businesses.” More than 50 executives from its electronics, finance and biotechnology affiliates discussed the direction of AI technology, potential uses, emerging markets and business opportunities. Topics also included AI’s effects on corporate decision-making and organizational operations, and the skills executives will need in a changing business environment.

The meeting continued cooperation between the two companies. Samsung Electronics and OpenAI signed a letter of intent last October to cooperate on building global AI infrastructure. Samsung Electronics has pursued supplying memory semiconductors for OpenAI’s Stargate project, a large-scale AI infrastructure initiative. Samsung SDS agreed to collaborate on AI data center construction and enterprise AI services, while Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries began joint development of offshore floating data centers. In July this year, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco.

Before the meeting, Samsung’s executives took hands-on training in generative AI. The session came four months after the company’s first intensive AI training in June. Participants practiced using AI to organize management materials into personal “knowledge repositories” and apply AI to decision-making. Samsung established the program as part of executive training for a company-wide AI transformation, or AX. Since June, it has been pursuing an “AI transformation” that brings AI into research and development, production, marketing and support work, with plans to raise productivity and business competitiveness and incorporate AI into products, services and company operations.

Samsung is planning training for about 2,300 executives following the session for affiliate leaders. It aims to extend the program to general employees and complete training for all employees by February 2027. Dedicated AI teams at each affiliate will support AX strategies tailored to their businesses, as well as the operation of data and AI models, and expand workplace use of external generative AI services. Samsung plans to review AX results at each affiliate, specify implementation tasks and establish an “AI-driven” management system across the group.