By Park Boram
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Yonhap) — President Lee Jae Myung arrived in San Francisco on Friday, the place he’ll meet with the leaders of worldwide tech giants, together with OpenAI Chief Government Officer (CEO) Sam Altman and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang.
The journey is a part of the president’s 11-day abroad tour that may later take him to Brazil, Chile and Argentina for bilateral summit talks with their leaders.
Throughout his two-day go to to San Francisco, Lee will meet with the heads of 4 world tech giants, together with Anthropic and Broadcom, to debate funding and cooperation plans.
In a high-level occasion on synthetic intelligence (AI), set to be held later within the day, the president plans to problem a “San Francisco AI declaration,” outlining South Korea’s imaginative and prescient for advancing the AI trade and enhancing world cooperation, based on presidential officers.
Leaders of South Korean tech conglomerates, together with Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Lee Jae-yong, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won and Hyundai Motor Group Government Chair Euisun Chung, will be a part of the occasion to debate the Lee administration’s just lately introduced megaprojects initiative aimed toward making a semiconductor cluster and different AI-related amenities.
At an earlier press briefing, presidential chief of employees for coverage Kim Yong-beom mentioned that the president will emphasize South Korea’s dedication to investing in AI and search funding and cooperation commitments from key firms throughout his journey to San Francisco.
President Lee Jae Myung (R) and first woman Kim Hea Kyung depart Italy’s Leonardo da Vinci Worldwide Airport for Geneva, on this June 16, 2026, file photograph. (Yonhap)
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