Overview
- President Lee departed for San Francisco on Friday, July 24, to convene an AI summit and hold scheduled meetings with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei.
- Nvidia and KAIST announced a joint AI research lab in Seoul to advance agentic AI research and link Nvidia’s models and cloud computing with Korean academic talent.
- Samsung, SK and Naver leaders are meeting U.S. AI executives near Silicon Valley to translate Seoul’s three national megaprojects into concrete deals, and reports of an Anthropic–Samsung 2nm chip discussion remain unconfirmed.
- Lee will meet six leading U.S. venture capital firms and attend an MOU ceremony with South Korea’s National Pension Service to deepen long‑term funding ties for Korean startups and infrastructure projects.
- Key details are still being negotiated: the size and governance of Korea’s Future Response Fund, formal corporate investment commitments, and major power, water and logistics upgrades that will determine jobs and regional impact.