LG Group's Koo set for return meeting with Nvidia CEO Huang

The Silicon Valley talks are expected to cover investment size and development timelines as LG and Nvidia turn earlier discussions on AI infrastructure and humanoid robotics into a more concrete partnership.

Summary

Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of LG Group, is set to meet Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Silicon Valley next week, about two months after their June 8 meeting in Seoul, as the companies move to formalize cooperation in AI infrastructure and robotics. People familiar with the plan expect the talks to cover potential investment size and a technology development timetable, extending a June discussion that touched on humanoid robots and next-generation data centers. The trip follows working-level exchanges, including a June 22 visit by about 30 LG executives to Nvidia, and builds on existing projects spanning a reference robot based on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T, digital twin factory automation using Omniverse, AI data center cooling equipment and Blackwell GPUs for LG's EXAONE model and broader AI expansion.

Terms & Concepts
  • Isaac GR00T: Nvidia's robotics foundation model for developing and training humanoid robots.
  • Omniverse: Nvidia's platform for creating digital twins of factories and other real-world operations.
  • Blackwell GPUs: Nvidia's latest AI chips used to train and run large models in data centers.