Samsung hosted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman for talks with about 50 of its presidents on Saturday. Two days earlier, a podcast went out in which Sam Altman said it is “quite terrible” for the world’s limited DRAM to sit in people’s own computers. DRAM is the memory chip Samsung makes.

Samsung set out the details in a statement on its Korean newsroom. The presidents came from its electronics, finance and biotech affiliates, and met Altman at Samsung’s training centre in Yongin, south of Seoul.

Inside the Samsung session

The talk ran under the theme of how AI will change the next ten years, and what companies should choose to do. Samsung’s presidents and Altman looked at where AI technology is heading and how it can be used, Samsung said. They also traded views on the new markets and business opportunities it could create.

They discussed how AI will change decision-making and the way organisations run, and what skills managers will need, the statement said.…