Vietnam-headquartered ICT company FPT and South Korea’s NAVER Cloud have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at expanding their “AI Factory” business across Asia-Pacific and into other markets, focusing on joint technology development, AI service delivery and commercialisation.
The companies said the partnership will support AI development and deployment on FPT’s AI Factory platform for enterprise customers in “strategic markets” across the region and globally. The agreement also includes plans to make NAVER Cloud’s hyperscale AI model, HyperCLOVA X, available to FPT enterprise customers via FPT AI Factory.
As part of the arrangement, FPT and NAVER Cloud will run regular technical exchange programs involving FPT engineers and teams from NAVER Cloud’s Vietnam Development Center and its headquarters. The companies said these teams will work with customers on tasks including GPU infrastructure optimisation, inference performance tuning and production deployment of AI agents.
FPT said the collaboration is intended to help organisations deploy AI without building their own infrastructure, by combining GPU cloud, “inference-ready” models and service operations.
Mr. Le Hong Viet, CEO of FPT Smart Cloud, FPT Corporation, said: “FPT has invested in advancing our AI Cloud capabilities through AI Factory, supported by engineering teams with proven experience across multiple markets. We look forward to working with NAVER Cloud to bring AI models closer to enterprise customers and develop new ways for businesses across Asia-Pacific and beyond to adopt AI with confidence and turn innovation into real business value.”
Mr. Le Xuan Loc, FPT Korea Deputy Director & Chief Delivery Officer, FPT Corporation, said: “Enterprise AI increasingly requires infrastructure, models, and engineering capabilities to work together as one integrated foundation. As organizations scale AI across operations, products, and customer experiences, access to diverse AI technologies and specialized expertise is becoming increasingly important. Through our AI-first approach and the partnership with NAVER Cloud, we are expanding the capabilities available to customers to operationalize AI at scale and create measurable business impact.”
Mr. Yuwon Kim, CEO of NAVER Cloud, stated: “Through this collaboration with FPT, NAVER Cloud can now combine the AI technologies and experience it has built up with FPT’s AI Factory and enterprise business capabilities. Building on both companies’ technology and business strengths, we will go beyond Korea and Vietnam to address customers’ diverse AI needs across the APAC market, and create a partnership that turns those efforts into real business results.”
FPT linked the partnership to its broader AI strategy, citing its FleziPT platform, CASAN AI maturity framework, and AI Factories in Vietnam and Japan. The company said its AI Factories in Japan and Vietnam ranked 36th and 38th, respectively, among the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems.
The company also said its AI Factory platform, which it described as powered by NVIDIA technologies, provides an AI cloud platform to more than 18,000 AI developers and over 2,000 enterprises worldwide.
FPT said it has operated in South Korea for more than a decade and has expanded across several business hubs including Seoul, Daegu, and Pangyo. It also listed several local enterprises it said it supports, including LG Electronics, LG CNS, Shinhan Bank and Shinsegae I&C.
