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Naver looks to Mexico as export market for AI infrastructure

Naver, the Korean tech powerhouse best known for operating the country’s dominant search engine and digital ecosystem, is expanding its global artificial intelligence (AI) push into Latin America. Company executives met with Mexican government officials and business leaders this week to explore joint initiatives aimed at building a regional AI ecosystem and accelerating industrial modernization.…

Naver looks to Mexico as export market for AI infrastructure

Korean tech giant Naver is looking to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure into Mexico, a Latin American market. Executives from Naver met with Mexican government officials and business leaders this week to discuss joint initiatives aimed at building a regional AI ecosystem and accelerating industrial modernization.

The visit took place from Thursday to Friday, with Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon participating as part of President Lee Jae Myung's economic delegation. During the meetings, Choi met with Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Minister of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, along with officials from the Agency of Digital Transformation and Telecommunications, as well as the Mexican IT company Softtek.

Choi presented Naver's capabilities in public-sector AI transformation, a sovereign AI strategy, and an AI factory project being developed in collaboration with Nvidia and Brookfield. The company proposed cooperation on Mexico's digital transformation initiatives within its public sector.

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