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From South Korea's accelerator industry marking a decade of registered operations to Elice Group hosting global AI researchers and Megazone Cloud partnering with a top university on quantum tech, Seoul's innovation ecosystem is having a busy — and revealing — week.
Anthropic has officially opened its Seoul office, revealing that Korea's Claude usage is 3.5 times higher than population-based expectations — with Naver, Nexon, Samsung SDS, and LG CNS already among its major enterprise adopters.
KAIST researchers have developed a microchannel cooling system that reduces pump power to one-tenth of existing technologies, potentially transforming how AI data centers manage the massive heat generated by high-performance chips.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang returned to Seoul for a packed multi-day visit that mixed Korean barbecue, pork belly dinners, and PC bang stops with high-stakes meetings across the country's AI, semiconductor, and tech ecosystem.
Tesla secured Chinese regulatory approval for its Full Self-Driving system just one week after Elon Musk's visit to Beijing with President Trump — and the ripple effects are being felt from Shanghai to Seoul.