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NCSOFT to cooperate with Google Cloud on AI, cloud computing

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NCSOFT CEO Kim Taek-jin, left, and Mark Lohmeyer, vice president of compute and artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure at Google Cloud shakes hand at Google heaquarters in California, U.S., in this photo provided by NCSOFT. Yonhap

NCSOFT CEO Kim Taek-jin, left, and Mark Lohmeyer, vice president of compute and artificial intelligence and machine learning infrastructure at Google Cloud shakes hand at Google heaquarters in California, U.S., in this photo provided by NCSOFT. Yonhap

NCSOFT, a major Korean online and mobile game developer, said Wednesday it has joined hands with Google Cloud in improving artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing capabilities.

In a meeting at the Google headquarters in the United States, the two companies discussed ways to apply AI and cloud technologies in game development and develop a platform to create a gaming ecosystem.

NCSOFT said it also plans to upgrade its generative AI language model, VARCO, by utilizing Google Cloud's Vertex AI, a machine learning platform that offers access to Google's next-generation LLM Gemini.

"To create a fresh gaming experience for our global users, we will collaborate with Google Cloud to form an ecosystem," NCSOFT CEO Kim Taek-jin said. (Yonhap)