Name: Nvidia, Samsung, and Hyundai bosses bond during night out in Seoul
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Description: CNBC’s Chery Kang reports on a casual Seoul dinner where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong, and Hyundai Executive Chair Chung Euisun bonded over fried chicken and soju, drawing curious onlookers eager to witness the tech titans’ night out.

CNBC’s Chery Kang reports on a casual Seoul dinner where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong, and Hyundai Executive Chair Chung Euisun bonded over fried chicken and soju, drawing curious onlookers eager to witness the tech titans’ night out.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was seen in Seoul alongside Samsung Electronics' JY Lee and Hyundai Motor's Chang Yi-sun, where they enjoyed local delicacies and attended the G4's Gamer Festival. The event marked the 25th anniversary of a GPU launch in South Korea and featured the executives on stage sharing light-hearted moments.

The gathering took place ahead of the AIPAC CEO Summit, with expectations of discussions on AI, robotics, and potential GPU collaborations involving Nvidia and South Korean companies. Huang hinted at upcoming announcements, with local media speculating about Nvidia providing GPU chips to the South Korean government and major corporations.

Nvidia, Samsung, and Hyundai bosses bond during night out in Seoul

As far as chips go, right? No agreement on selling advanced NVIDIA chips to China, but after meeting President Trump, China's Xi Jinping did say, though, that his government and NVIDIA are going to talk more about this. Meantime, this is actually more interesting, right? NVIDIA boss Jensen Huang spotted out and about in Seoul partaking in some local delicacies. What's going on there? Local delicacies. I know. I mean, I never got this fried chicken craze in South Korea. I mean, other countries got fried chicken, but yes, Koreans, they do it differently, a little sweeter. But Jensen Huang definitely enjoyed that experience. And apparently, I mean, according to local media reports, he was the one who chose that local delicacies. He actually brought his own liquor. He was actually spotted bringing out some soju bomb materials. I don't know. But yes, it's interesting. You never see that often. You just don't see that often. Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, JY Lee of Samsung Electronics, and Chang Yi-sun of Hyundai Motor hanging out in Seoul, having fried chicken, drinking beer, maybe a little bit of soju in there. And they actually took to the stage at this event as well. So from this marketing perspective, it was just an amazing event. And in fact, on that stage, we're talking about this event, of course, G4's Gamer Festival that happened right by that chicken place in Seoul. It was actually to mark the 25th anniversary of that particular GPU launch in South Korea. And when they came onto the stage, I mean, it was really a lot of laughter for a lot of South Koreans. It was Jensen Huang talking about that soju bomb, JY Lee of Samsung saying, hey, wait a minute, I see too many iPhones around here. And also Hyundai Motor Group chief talking about his experience of playing League of Legends, of course, the GPUs going into that particular game as well. So it was a relatively speaking lighter moment for these high power corporate executives. And of course, that sets it up very nicely for Jensen Huang's appearance at the AIPAC CEO Summit right here in Gyeongju later on today. They are expected to have discussed AI collaborations, robotics and so on. And here is Jensen Huang actually speaking just overnight, not really giving away too much, but teasing something big is being announced. Take a listen. We have a lot of good news, a lot of great news for Korea, a lot of great news between me and my many great partners. And so I promised President Lee I was not going to tell the good news before he does. So I'm saving it for him to announce. And to do my best to give our audience a little bit of a teaser on what we could expect. I mean, some local media is talking about NVIDIA providing GPU chips to the South Korean government, as well as the companies like Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor and Naver. So do watch out for those names later on today. Marty? All right. That's a lot of fun. Seems like night out for the boys.

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