Samsung said it held a meeting with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for presidents of major affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, at the Samsung Human Resources Development Institute in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, on October 31.
The meeting’s theme was “The next 10 years transformed by artificial intelligence: Choices for businesses.” About 50 affiliate presidents from electronics, finance, biotechnology and other sectors attended. Samsung’s presidents and Altman examined the direction of AI technology development and its potential applications, and exchanged views on future markets and business opportunities. They discussed AI’s expected impact on corporate decision-making and organizational operations, as well as the capabilities executives need in a changing business environment.
Samsung explained that it arranged the meeting “to improve executives’ understanding of AI and explore future management strategies as part of training for presidents to advance company-wide AI transformation.” It added: “Recognizing that competitiveness in the AI era stems from executives’ judgment and execution, we are promoting a culture in which presidents learn about and use AI.”
Samsung Electronics and OpenAI signed a letter of intent in October of the previous year to cooperate on building global AI infrastructure, and have been pursuing the supply of memory semiconductors needed for OpenAI’s Stargate project. At the time, Samsung SDS agreed to cooperate on AI data center construction and enterprise AI services. Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries are jointly developing floating offshore data centers. In July, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong visited OpenAI’s headquarters in San Francisco.
Before the meeting on October 31, Samsung’s presidents received hands-on training in generative AI. The additional training took place four months after the first intensive AI training for presidents in June.
Samsung explained that it runs training programs to help personnel, starting with presidents, learn AI technology and apply it to their work, focusing on developing their ability to use it. Presidents can use AI to organize scattered management materials into a knowledge repository and improve their ability to use AI in decision-making.
Since June, Samsung has been pursuing an “AI transformation” to introduce AI across all areas, from research and development to production, marketing and support. It plans to use AI to improve work productivity and business competitiveness, and incorporate AI into products, services and corporate operations. It is developing ways to use AI suited to each affiliate’s business characteristics and working environment, and expanding the foundations that enable employees to use AI.
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Starting with training for presidents in June, Samsung pursued training for about 2,300 executives. It plans to expand training to general employees and complete AI training for all executives and employees by February 2027. It is establishing dedicated AI teams at each affiliate and expanding the use of external generative AI services for work. The dedicated AI teams develop AI transformation strategies suited to each company’s business characteristics and support the operation and use of data and AI models.
Samsung said: “We plan to respond proactively to advances in AI technology and changes in the industry environment, review each affiliate’s AI transformation results and define specific implementation tasks to establish an AI-centered management system.”
Original Korean article: ZDNet Korea
English brief by Korea Wind Intelligence, koreawindintel.com
