OpenAI CEO Sam Altman encourages South Korea to supply chips in AI boom

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, who met with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, urged South Korea to play a leading role in creating international AI standards as well as focusing on making the chips needed for the technology.

Altman, after crisscrossing Europe last month meeting lawmakers and national leaders to discuss AI’s prospects and threats, has travelled this week to Israel, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, India and South Korea.

The CEO suggested South Korea should focus on chips as both system semiconductors and memory chips are needed for AI, reduce corporate regulations to foster AI projects, as well as work towards setting international standards, South Korea’s presidential office said.