AI news for Nov 9, 2026

NVIDIA described work with three Korean companies to move physical AI from development into production use. Samsung Electronics is widening its use of accelerated computing and AI physics across semiconductor work — materials research, process development and device engineering — with CUDA libraries including cuISS, cuDSS, cuEST and PhysicsNeMo; in one thermal and mechanical analysis case, simulation time fell from about 18 hours on a 32-core CPU to 41 seconds using AI-predicted material properties and a coarser grid. Kakao Mobility plans to build a Level 4 autonomous driving system on NVIDIA Hyperion with DRIVE AGX Thor and Halos safety tools, starting with Kia purpose-built vehicles. LG Electronics demonstrated its CLOiD robot doing manufacturing tasks, trained through an Isaac GR00T and Cosmos data pipeline and running on Jetson AGX Thor.

NVIDIA outlined how Korean companies are adopting its agent-safety tooling. Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the OpenShell runtime, and AI security firm AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort agent control platform with OpenShell, pairing runtime access controls with detection of malicious instructions and data leakage. AIM Intelligence is also weighing a proof of concept for the public energy sector. Separately, LG AI Research is opening API access to K-EXAONE-2.5, a model built with NVIDIA Nemotron datasets including Nemotron-Personas-Korea, an open set of 7 million synthetic Korean personas grounded in official statistics. OpenShell is part of NVIDIA's Open Agent Safety Platform and offers sandboxed execution with policy-based controls; developers can start building with it and with Nemotron open models now.

NVIDIA and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT are widening an existing collaboration across the country's sovereign AI work, spanning semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent, startups, models, agents and security. Under the arrangement, Korean NPU and XPU companies can explore joining NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion ecosystem, and NVIDIA will run training and certification programs, hackathons and technical seminars aimed at strengthening GPU utilization. Through Korea's AI for All initiative, NVIDIA will work with three selected consortia and four Korean foundation model builders to optimize and scale inference using NVIDIA Dynamo. NVIDIA also announced a separate collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions, supported by MSIT, on sovereign AI infrastructure for Korean models and workloads.