LG Group is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA across various sectors of the future AI industry, including physical AI, AI data centers (AIDC), and mobility.
On June 8, LG Group held a top management meeting at LG Twin Tower in Yeouido, Seoul, attended by Chairman Koo Kwang-mo and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
This meeting followed a dinner on June 5, where Koo and Huang met with leaders of major domestic companies.
The two companies agreed to build a next-generation physical AI ecosystem that connects the entire process from AI model development to robotic learning and operation, as well as digital twin construction. They plan to strengthen their collaboration particularly in the areas of AI factories, robotics, and mobility.
In the field of physical AI, LG will combine its manufacturing competitiveness with NVIDIA's AI platform technology. LG Electronics aims to expand its collaboration in developing humanoid and logistics robots based on NVIDIA's robotics platforms, including Isaac, GR00T, and Cosmos. They plan to work together throughout the entire process, from data construction to simulation, learning, and behavior implementation, to enhance next-generation robotic competitiveness.
LG Innotek will develop high-performance sensing modules and optical components that serve as the eyes of the robots. They will apply optical technology optimized for NVIDIA's AI chip architecture to strengthen the competitiveness of core components in physical AI. LG CNS plans to integrate NVIDIA's robotics technology into its industrial robot platform, PhysicalWorks, to accelerate the AI transformation in manufacturing and logistics.
The two companies will also expand their cooperation in the manufacturing AI sector. By combining LG's accumulated production technology data and manufacturing know-how with NVIDIA's AI computing and digital twin technology, they aim to establish an autonomous manufacturing system that connects the entire process from raw material procurement to production, logistics, and customer delivery in real-time. They envision this as a new standard for global smart factories.
Collaboration in the data center sector, a key infrastructure for the AI era, will also be strengthened. LG Electronics will work with NVIDIA on the certification of cooling solutions for data centers, including cooling distribution units (CDUs) and cold plates. Additionally, they plan to jointly develop prefabricated modular data center design technology that aligns with NVIDIA's Digital Twin Supercomputing Matrix (DSX) AI factory reference design.
LG Uplus and LG CNS will pursue the construction of next-generation AI factories based on NVIDIA's DSX AI factory reference design. This initiative aims to enhance the scalability and energy efficiency of AI infrastructure and respond to the growing demand for large-scale AI services.
LG Energy Solution is targeting the AI data center power market. The two companies are discussing collaboration on 800V direct current (DC) power solutions based on NVIDIA's Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) verification guidelines. This strategy aims to address the increasing power demand of AI data centers while seizing opportunities in the next-generation energy market.
Collaboration in the mobility sector will also be expanded. LG Electronics plans to enhance its advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and software-defined vehicle (SDV) competitiveness by combining its in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) technology with NVIDIA's autonomous driving platform, Drive Hyperion. LG Innotek also plans to optimize and supply vehicle communication modules, sensing solutions, and lighting systems for the NVIDIA Drive platform.
Efforts to strengthen AI competitiveness in South Korea will also be pursued. LG AI Research will utilize NVIDIA's latest graphics processing unit (GPU), Blackwell, along with the NeMo framework and TensorRT-LLM, to improve learning efficiency and inference performance during the development of the next-generation AI model, EXAONE. They also plan to enhance the quality of AI training data using the Nemotron open dataset.
Koo Kwang-mo stated, "The blueprint for the AI ecosystem envisioned by NVIDIA aligns with LG's future vision of creating innovations in customers' daily lives and industrial sites. We will solidify our partnership for the future by combining our differentiated capabilities."
Jensen Huang emphasized, "Korea possesses global competitiveness in manufacturing, mechatronics, and AI. LG can extend its leadership beyond home appliances and vehicles to factories and AI infrastructure based on NVIDIA's AI platform."
* This article has been translated by AI.
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