SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean information and communications technology (ICT) companies are moving away from independent development efforts, forming strategic partnerships with global tech giants in artificial intelligence to minimize risks and boost their service capabilities. KT Corporation, one of South Korea’s largest telecommunications companies, announced plans to collaborate with Microsoft to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading South Korean companies and institutions are increasingly restricting the use of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence model, amid concerns over its excessive data collection practices. Kakao, which recently announced an official partnership with OpenAI, became the first major South Korean IT company to prohibit DeepSeek’s use for internal operations, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. on Tuesday announced partnership with OpenAI to use ChatGPT on its new artificial intelligence (AI) service, joining a global alliance led by the U.S. AI company amid intensifying competition in the global AI market. “I am happy to share our partnership with OpenAI [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Sam Altman, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, will visit South Korea this week for an event with local developers amid an intensifying global AI race, industry sources said Monday. OpenAI will hold the “Builder Lab” event in Seoul on Tuesday, bringing together [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) signed an initial agreement Tuesday with U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) research firm OpenAI to jointly foster the growth of South Korea’s AI ecosystem, bank officials said. Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU), the two sides will collaborate to boost the local AI ecosystem [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Major tech companies, including OpenAI and Google, are intensifying their efforts to collaborate with smartphone manufacturers as generative AI continues to revolutionize digital services. While AI applications have become a mainstay in desktop environments for tasks like document summarization and image generation, the mobile sector has yet to fully [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said Thursday it has imposed a fine of 3.6 million won (US$2,829) on OpenAI, the operator of the generative chatbot ChatGPT, for exposing the personal information of 687 South Korean users. A now-patched bug in an open-source library on ChatGPT created a caching [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said Friday that he is ready to invest in promising startups in South Korea, where its global sensation chatbot ChatGPT has been rapidly and widely used. “We love to support people building on our platform. Some of our teams here today [...]