Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han (김창한) visited Amazon Web Services' headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and met AWS Chief Executive Matt Garman (맷 가먼) and other key executives.

Krafton disclosed the meeting on LinkedIn on Tuesday. The companies shared Krafton's AI vision and held in-depth talks on how AWS cloud and AI infrastructure could support Krafton's technology development. Expanding humanoid robotics and AI and simulation capabilities into the real world was also a key agenda item.

Krafton has used AWS cloud infrastructure for its game services, including "PUBG: Battlegrounds". But it was the first time the two CEOs have met in person.

Krafton's focus on AWS as a partner for physical AI cooperation has business reasons. Krafton declared itself "AI First" last year and began building an Nvidia GPU cluster worth 100 billion won, and in February it established Ludo Robotics, a U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco specialising in humanoid robot AI. Ludo Robotics is focused on developing AI software that enables robots to recognise their surroundings, interpret human instructions and move in real spaces. Such robot AI development requires large-scale simulation environments, cloud infrastructure for AI training and real-time inference systems.

AWS is also seen as viewing physical AI as the next-generation source of cloud demand following generative AI, an analysis said.

Still, the meeting has not led to any specific business partnership or contract so far. A Krafton official said, "We exchanged views on possible cooperation centred on Krafton's AI research and development and AWS's cloud and AI infrastructure capabilities," adding, "We plan to continue related discussions."

Krafton last year met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Earlier this month, during Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's visit to South Korea, Krafton Chairman Chang Byung-gyu and Chief AI Officer Lee Kang-wook met Huang to discuss cooperation plans.