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KT Corporation and Microsoft launch five-year multibillion-dollar AI partnership in Korea
KT Corporation
KT Corporation and Microsoft announced a five-year, multibillion-dollar strategic partnership to drive AI transformation for more than 650,000 businesses and 17 million consumers in Korea. The plan includes a Korea-customized GPT-4o via Azure OpenAI Service, a Korean sovereign cloud (Secure Public Cloud) built on Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new AX-specialized service company, an AI co-innovation center with Microsoft Research, and deployment of Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot to KT employees, with more than 19,000 employees to be trained in cloud and AI skills.