{"id":1544,"date":"2024-08-21T08:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2024-09-24T08:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T23:33:38","slug":"skt-signs-partnership-agreement-with-lambda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/1544","title":{"rendered":"SKT Signs Partnership Agreement with Lambda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SKT<\/p>\n

Ryu Young-sang, CEO of SK Telecom (pictured left) and Stephen Balaban, CEO and co-founder of Lambda, pose for a commemorative photo after discussing specific cooperation plans at Lambda\u2019s San Jose headquarters in January 2024.<\/p>\n

SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM, \u201cSKT\u201d) today announced that it entered into a partnership agreement with Lambda, the GPU cloud company founded by AI engineers, for collaboration in the AI cloud business.<\/p>\n

The two companies agreed to establish a large-scale NVIDIA GPU cluster to support AI cloud business opportunities in South Korea. SKT and Lambda will deploy NVIDIA GPU clusters in SK Broadband\u2019s Gasan data center in Korea by the end of this year. This cluster will be based on Lambda\u2019s cloud computing platform, accelerated by NVIDIA.<\/p>\n

Establishing a strategic partnership with Lambda underscores SKT\u2019s commitment to providing unprecedented access to scalable AI infrastructure in South Korea. SKT will launch AI cloud services, including GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS), to enable enterprises to access GPU cloud services on an as-needed basis to develop or utilize AI services.<\/p>\n

The collaboration between the two companies is expected to boost the expansion of SKT\u2019s AI cloud services into the global market.<\/p>\n

\u201cA strategic partnership with Lambda will strengthen our competitiveness in AI cloud services and develop greater business opportunities in Korea,\u201d said Kim Kyeong-deog, Vice President and Head of Enterprise Business Division at SKT.<\/p>\n

\u201cSKT shares in our vision to make GPU compute as ubiquitous as electricity,\u201d said Lambda CEO and co-founder Stephen Balaban. \u201cGiven the rapid pace of innovation in AI happening in South Korea, we\u2019re excited to partner with SKT and support their effort to grow and develop their AI cloud expertise in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SKT<\/p>\n

Ryu Young-sang, CEO of SK Telecom (fourth from the left in the back row) and Stephen Balaban, CEO and co-founder of Lambda (fifth from the left in the back row), along with key representatives from both companies, are posing for a commemorative photo after discussing cooperation plans at Lambda\u2019s San Jose headquarters in January 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ryu Young-sang, CEO of SK Telecom (pictured left) and Stephen Balaban, CEO and co-founder of Lambda, pose for a commemorative photo after discussing specific cooperation plans at Lambda\u2019s San Jose headquarters in January 2024. SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM, \u201cSKT\u201d) today announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,391,390,389],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-ai","tag-cloud","tag-gpu","tag-lambda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sktelecom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}