South Korea might just win big this time. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung went to the U.S. this time and brought along some of the most influential business leaders in the country. Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong, SK’s Chey Tae-won, Hyundai’s Chung Eui-sun, and Naver’s Lee Hae-jin all showed up; sitting across from them were Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. The total value of the announced cooperation plans reached $950 billion, roughly 6.9 trillion RMB. Samsung and Broadcom signed a $200 billion advanced storage and AI chip manufacturing partnership for the next five years. SK and NVIDIA, among others, are pushing forward a $750 billion long-term collaboration involving HBM, next-gen chips, and AI data centers. There’s also about 5GW worth of data center cooperation, equivalent to a computing scale of around 2 million B200 GPUs. Let’s be clear: most of these are supply agreements and MOUs for the next five years, not $950 billion already in the bank. But the scale is still mind-blowing. South Korea isn’t betting everything on creating another ChatGPT. Instead, it’s leveraging its strongest assets—memory chips, manufacturing, robotics, and data center capabilities—to firmly anchor itself to the global AI expansion. No matter which AI model wins in the future, South Korea wants to be the indispensable supplier.