OpenAI has entered into a wide-ranging agreement with multiple Samsung affiliates to advance AI infrastructure and future technology development. The letter of intent (LOI) outlines collaboration across semiconductors, data centers, shipbuilding, and cloud services, with each Samsung division contributing expertise in its sector.
The signing took place at Samsung’s Seoul headquarters, with senior leadership from Samsung Electronics, Samsung Heavy Industries, Samsung C&T, and Samsung SDS present.
Samsung Electronics will serve as a strategic memory partner for OpenAI’s Stargate initiative, a global AI data center project with significant hardware demands. With projected requirements reaching 900,000 DRAM wafers per month, Samsung’s role will be to supply advanced, energy-efficient memory solutions. The company’s broader semiconductor portfolio, which spans memory, logic, and foundry services, positions it to support AI workloads from training to inference. Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration technologies are also expected to play a role in meeting OpenAI’s system-level needs.
Samsung SDS will collaborate on AI data center development and enterprise services. Under the LOI, it will work with OpenAI on the design, build, and operation of Stargate data centers, while also offering consulting and management services to businesses integrating OpenAI’s models. Additionally, Samsung SDS has secured a reseller agreement to distribute ChatGPT Enterprise in Korea, supporting local adoption of AI in corporate environments.
Samsung C&T and Samsung Heavy Industries will focus on floating data centers—an emerging alternative to land-based facilities. Floating platforms offer potential benefits in cooling efficiency, land use, and carbon reduction, though technical complexity has limited deployment so far. Both companies will also study applications of floating infrastructure for power generation and control systems.
This alliance signals a broader effort by Samsung to align with Korea’s ambition of becoming one of the world’s top AI nations. Internally, the group is also exploring the use of ChatGPT to drive workplace transformation across its companies.
