Samsung executives meet Sam Altman as the company pushes AI into daily work

What was reported

As Asia Daily reported, Samsung executives met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of the company's push to apply AI across the whole business. The gathering was themed around the choices companies face over the next decade of AI.

Executives from electronics, finance and biotech discussed where the technology is heading, what new markets it could open, and how it changes decisions and the way organizations run. They also talked about what skills managers will need.

Managers learn by doing

Ahead of the meeting, the executives took hands-on training in generative AI, meaning tools that write and summarize text. It came four months after Samsung's first intensive AI course for executives in June.

The focus was practical. Executives used AI to organize scattered business material into a personal knowledge store and practiced bringing AI into their decisions.

Beyond the meeting room

Since June, Samsung says it has moved AI into research, production, marketing and support. Affiliate companies are building plans that fit their own work, and each is creating a dedicated AI team to set its strategy and support the data and models behind it. The company calls this effort AX, short for AI transformation.

The OpenAI relationship is older. Last October, Samsung Electronics signed a letter of intent, a non-binding statement of shared plans, to cooperate on AI infrastructure. That included supplying memory chips for OpenAI's Stargate project. Other Samsung affiliates agreed to work on data centers, including floating offshore ones, and Samsung's chairman visited OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters in July.

What is and is not known

The report describes the meeting and Samsung's internal program. It does not describe a new contract, product or price tied to this meeting. Treat it as a sign of intent.