South Korea's Naver Introduces Nuclear Power-Specialized AI Hy-NuRI Cooperation Experience in France

According to South Korean media reports on September 9, Naver, a South Korean internet service company, introduced its case of developing the nuclear power-specialized AI "Hy-NuRI" in cooperation with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power while seeking to expand AI cooperation in France.

Reports indicate that Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon and Naver Cloud CEO Kim Yoo-won recently met with heads of French companies and institutions in media, information technology, energy, transportation, and finance sectors to discuss cooperation directions such as AI infrastructure and industry-specialized AI.

At the Korea-France Business Roundtable held in France on the 8th, Choi Soo-yeon stated that Naver hopes to cooperate around global AI infrastructure and industry-specialized AI with data sovereignty and security guarantees. She mentioned that Naver has combined AI with data and expertise from different industries and applied it to real business scenarios.

Regarding industry-specialized AI, Choi Soo-yeon cited examples where Naver developed the finance-specialized AI "BOKI" in cooperation with the Bank of Korea, and the nuclear power-specialized AI "Hy-NuRI" in cooperation with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. According to reports, Hy-NuRI is described as a nuclear power-specialized AI system isolated from external networks.

Choi Soo-yeon also stated that Naver can support French companies and institutions in building secure and reliable industry-specialized AI based on the aforementioned experience. The reports did not disclose specific arrangements for cooperation between Naver and French nuclear power-related institutions on Hy-NuRI.