Samsung SDS Co Ltd

Samsung Electronics and its affiliates will jointly invest $1B in Helix Digital Infrastructure, the AI infrastructure company launched by KKR with backing from Nvidia. Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it will put in $500M, with Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance contributing the remainder. The deal lets Samsung draw on capabilities across its affiliates, from semiconductors and cooling systems to data center construction and batteries, as the group looks to expand its role in the global AI infrastructure buildout. Helix, launched in June, is led by Adam Selipsky, the former CEO of Amazon Web Services, and counts KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia, and U.S. power company Vistra as founding investors. KKR said the new investment comes on top of the more than $10B of funds already committed to the company. Samsung Electronics shares rose 2.13% Tuesday morning, while the benchmark Kospi index fell 0.53%.

MegazoneCloud has begun developing Hanmi Q-Agent, an AI agent that automates Hanmi Pharmaceutical's quality assurance operations, built on its enterprise AI OS AIR Studio. The project is part of the AX One-Stop Voucher Program, through which the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency provide integrated support for AI, cloud, and data in voucher form, and system development started on the 7th. MegazoneCloud will build a retrieval-augmented generation agent for some 4,000 quality documents accumulated by Hanmi Pharmaceutical, retrieving and summarizing them and comparing them against the latest regulations, with the goal of cutting related work time by more than 40 percent. As the response engine, MegazoneCloud fine-tunes Upstage's Korean model Solar to Hanmi Pharmaceutical's GMP domain and deploys it on the AIR Studio-based agent. Hanmi Pharmaceutical leads the consortium, with MegazoneCloud handling AI solution implementation and fine-tuning, Samsung SDS providing the AX infrastructure, and Selectstar performing data processing and third-party verification; the four companies held the 2026 AX One-Stop Voucher Program Hanmi Pharmaceutical Consortium Kickoff on August 28.

Analysts predict that Samsung is on track to become a major global stablecoin distributor, after the company laid the groundwork for access through more than 800 million Galaxy devices worldwide. This move comes amid the enforcement of South Korea's Digital Asset Basic Act and partnerships with major digital asset platforms such as Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, as well as the development of Samsung Wallet and the issuance of a Samsung stablecoin on Samsung SDS infrastructure, which will allow users to transact directly with USDC and other stablecoins via smartphones.

Samsung Electronics shares rose 6.76% after the company announced the establishment of a new robotics business unit called RX, or Robotics eXperience, to drive its mid- to long-term strategy in Physical AI and humanoid robots. TM Roh, the chief executive officer, will personally oversee the unit. The announcement also helped lift South Korea's Kospi index by about 4%. Earlier in the same month, TM Roh revealed that Samsung Electronics plans to invest approximately 60 trillion won in the Yeongnam region, which includes its manufacturing base in Gumi. Of this amount, 19 trillion won will be used together with Samsung SDS to develop Physical AI infrastructure and build a humanoid robot manufacturing plant. In addition, the new unit plans to set up research and development centers in the United States, China, and Japan.

Anthropic opened a Seoul office and announced a series of partnerships across South Korea's artificial intelligence ecosystem as the Claude developer expands in Asia ahead of a public listing. The company signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT to collaborate on public-sector AI adoption, model safety testing, and cybersecurity threats. Major business groups including LG CNS, Hanwha Solutions, and Samsung SDS are deploying Claude, while NAVER uses Claude Code for software development and Nexon has integrated Claude into game development workflows. Anthropic will also provide Claude access to about 60 researchers at South Korea's National AI Research Lab for work on AI safety and frontier research. The Seoul office is led by Kiyoung Choi, who joined in May as Representative Director of Korea from Snowflake.