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CTOnews.com, June 9 (Reuters)-OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will visit South Korea to meet with South Korean President Yoon Seok-Yue and leaders of about 100 South Korean start-ups on Friday against the backdrop of encouraging local companies to continue to improve their competitiveness in the AI sector.

▲ Tu Yuan OpenAI this week traveled to Israel, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, India and other countries after meeting with European lawmakers and national leaders last month to discuss the prospects and threats of AI. South Korea is the last leg of his trip this week.

In the field of artificial intelligence, dominated by China and the US, South Korea is one of the few countries to develop basic models on its own, driven by local technology companies such as Naver, Kakao and LG.

Naver is working to develop localized AI applications for countries in the Middle East and non-English-speaking countries such as Spain and Mexico, the Financial Times reported in May, citing Naver executives.

The EU is pushing ahead with its draft AI bill, which is expected to come into force later this year. South Korea's parliament is also discussing and drafting a similar bill, which is widely seen as more lenient than the EU's terms.

According to previous reports from CTOnews.com, in February this year, a special committee of the South Korean Parliament passed a draft law on AI, which guarantees the freedom to publish AI products and services, and regulators will restrict them only if they believe that they endanger people's lives and legal rights.

In April, South Korea's Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communications announced plans to focus on promoting the development of the country's AI, such as providing data sets for training very large-scale AI, while the country continues to discuss AI ethics and regulations.

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