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South Korean Companies Ban Chinese AI DeepSeek over Security Fears

South Korean Companies Ban Chinese AI DeepSeek over Security Fears

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, [...]

Kakao Announces Partnership with OpenAI to Use ChatGPT on Its New AI Service

Kakao Announces Partnership with OpenAI to Use ChatGPT on Its New AI Service

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 [...]

OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Visit South Korea Amid AI Boom, Expected to Announce Kakao Partnership

OpenAI’s Sam Altman to Visit South Korea Amid AI Boom, Expected to Announce Kakao Partnership

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 [...]

OpenAI and Korea Development Bank Unite to Propel South Korea’s AI Ecosystem

OpenAI and Korea Development Bank Unite to Propel South Korea’s AI Ecosystem

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 [...]

Big Tech Giants Pursue Mobile Partnerships to Expand AI Services

Big Tech Giants Pursue Mobile Partnerships to Expand AI Services

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 [...]

ChatGPT Fined 3.6 mln Won for Exposing Personal Info of 687 S. Korean Users

ChatGPT Fined 3.6 mln Won for Exposing Personal Info of 687 S. Korean Users

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 [...]