DeepSeek sparks AI arms race, forcing Korean tech firms to act fast or fall behind Naver and Kakao, the nation's top two ...

Chung has said that Kakao would shift its focus away from developing its own large language models, citing high cost with no clear business model in place. Chung took the helm of the Korean ...

OpenAI chairman Sam Altman inked a deal with South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp. on Tuesday, marking the second major Asian partnership for the ChatGPT maker this week amid growing competition from Ch ...

Like Uber, Meta and Amazon rolled into one, the tech giant (and OpenAI’s newest partner) is a driving force in Korea’s ...

marking the second major Asian partnership for the Silicon Valley ChatGPT maker this week amid intensifying AI competition sparked by China's new DeepSeek model. Kakao, which operates South Korea ...

Today’s Kakao news was announced earlier ... continues to build out and train its large language models. Deals with major players in Korea and Japan, with their access to millions of consumers ...

Kakao, which owns an online bank, Korea's largest taxi-hailing app and KakaoTalk ... OpenAI warned last week that Chinese companies are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, ...

Kakao Corp. on Thursday said it plans to launch a new AI-powered service with ChatGPT operator OpenAI later this year, as the ...

Kakao, which owns an online bank, South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app ... are actively attempting to replicate its advanced AI models, prompting closer cooperation with US authorities.

powered by DeepSeek’s R1 model, on Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk. According to WRTN, users can get DeepSeek’s chat-based AI assistant by adding WRTN’s channel on KakaoTalk.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman, right, and Kakao CEO Shina Chung pose for the media at the Kakao media day in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025.