NVIDIA Teams With Samsung, Kakao Mobility and LG on Physical AI in Korea

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.