The Yongin summit
About fifty senior executives from the Samsung group met on Saturday with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at the Human Resources Development Center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. The Korea Herald reports this, specifying that presidents and other top managers of the main subsidiaries active in electronics, finance, and biotechnology were present.
The stated theme of the meeting was the coming decade as shaped by artificial intelligence and the choice facing companies in the face of this change. According to the source's account, the executives discussed with Altman the future direction of the technology, its possible applications, and emerging business opportunities. The discussion focused in particular on how AI can transform corporate decisions and organizational management, as well as the leadership skills required of managers.
A training effort that began earlier
The meeting is not an isolated episode. Samsung places it within the framework of a broader effort to accelerate AI-based transformation across all the group's activities. Before the face-to-face meeting with Altman, the executives took part in a hands-on training session on generative AI, aimed at organizing corporate data scattered across customized knowledge bases and using AI guidance to support managerial decisions.
This is the second intensive training program dedicated to top executives, after a first cycle held in June. The source indicates that the group has already trained about 2,300 executives since June and aims to complete training for all employees by February 2027, with the intention of expanding the use of external generative AI services in the workplace. Each subsidiary is building its own adoption strategy, with teams dedicated to implementation, data management, and model operations.
Beyond memory supply
The relationship between Samsung and OpenAI, according to the report, is expanding from chip supply to AI infrastructure and enterprise services. In October 2025, Samsung Electronics signed a letter of intent with OpenAI for cooperation on global AI infrastructure, including the project to supply advanced memory for OpenAI's Stargate program. Other subsidiaries have joined: Samsung SDS reportedly considered developing AI data centers and enterprise services, while Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries reportedly pursued the joint development of offshore floating data centers.
On the labor front, in June OpenAI announced that Samsung Electronics would distribute ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees in South Korea and to the global Device eXperience division, calling it one of the largest corporate implementations of the service. The source also cites the visit by Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong to OpenAI's headquarters in San Francisco last July. It remains to be verified, based on the available material alone, which agreements are already operational and which remain letters of intent or exploratory assessments.
