Sam Altman flew to South Korea in secret. He met Samsung. He lunched with SK Group's Chey Tae-won. He left Saturday.
The gift was a keyboard.
,Altman presented a "Codex Micro Keyboard" to Song Yong-ho, head of the AI Center for Samsung Electronics' DS Division., A tiny keyboard, from the man who says ,voice-driven AI workflows make full-sized keyboards increasingly obsolete., He gave a gift to chip executives whose product is the thing his company cannot get enough of.
Press release style, then:
OPENAI ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC KEYBOARD SYNERGY. The company is pleased to confirm it has leveraged a two-day, 6,000-mile itinerary to deliver a peripheral. Stakeholders are encouraged to remain calm. Neither OpenAI, Samsung nor SK has said whether ,the meetings produced any new investment or negotiations over memory prices.,
So nobody knows what happened. Your brokerage app will still send a push notification.
Here is what is known. ,Altman met around 50 executives from Samsung affiliates spanning electronics, finance and biotechnology., Biotechnology. Somebody from Samsung's biotech arm sat through a talk about AI and corporate choices and nodded. Nobody asked him a question. He was there for the catering.
The trip also follows a canceled one. ,Altman scrapped a planned June visit for personal reasons., Four months later he showed up unannounced. That is how people apologize when they own a memory supply chain.
Retail traders will now buy Samsung calls because a man gave away a keyboard. They will call it conviction. Their spouses will call it a cry for help.
Altman flew across the Pacific to meet the people who make the memory. The people who make the memory got a keyboard. The retail trader gets a headline and a margin call.
Enjoy the keyboard, Song Yong-ho. It's the only thing in this story with a confirmed price.
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