{"id":1024381,"date":"2026-07-29T08:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024381"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:42:58","slug":"sam-altman-eyes-south-korea-as-testbed-for-openais-first-hardware-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/29\/sam-altman-eyes-south-korea-as-testbed-for-openais-first-hardware-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman eyes South Korea as testbed for OpenAI&#8217;s first hardware device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has expressed his desire to use South Korea as a testbed for the artificial intelligence firm&#8217;s first hardware device, according to a news report by The Korea Herald citing South Korea&#8217;s presidential office. <\/p>\n<p>The development follows a meeting between Altman and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in San Francisco to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation, particularly on next-generation artificial intelligence hardware. <\/p>\n<p>Senior presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said Altman &#8220;expressed expectations for using Korea as a testbed&#8221; for the device, which is due in the first quarter of next year, and signaled a willingness to broaden the partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has expressed his desire to use South Korea as a testbed for the artificial intelligence firm&#8217;s first hardware device, according to a news report by The Korea Herald citing South Korea&#8217;s presidential office. The development follows a meeting between Altman and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in San Francisco to discuss expanding bilateral cooperation, particularly on next-generation artificial intelligence hardware. Senior presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said Altman &#8220;expressed expectations for using Korea as a testbed&#8221; for the device, which is due in the first quarter of next year, and signaled a willingness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024383,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024381\/revisions\/1024383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}