FPT, NAVER Cloud form alliance

Source: FPT. Representatives of FPT and NAVER Cloud at the signing ceremony.

Global ICT corporation FPT and NAVER Cloud, one of South Korea's largest technology companies, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand their AI Factory business and market presence across Asia-Pacific (APAC) and into global markets through joint technology development, AI service delivery, and commercialisation initiatives.

Under the terms of the agreement, FPT and NAVER Cloud will accelerate AI development and deployment on FPT AI Factory for enterprises in strategic markets across APAC and around the world. The two companies will also work toward offering NAVER Cloud's hyperscale AI model, HyperCLOVA X, to FPT's enterprise customers through FPT AI Factory.

In addition, the two companies will conduct regular technical exchange programmes to strengthen their forward deployed engineering (FDE) capabilities, involving FPT's engineers and teams from NAVER Cloud's Vietnam Development Center and headquarters. These joint teams will work directly with customers, from optimising GPU infrastructure and inference performance to deploying AI agents in production.

Combining capabilities in high-performance GPU cloud, inference-ready models, and service operations in one, the collaboration empowers enterprises to deploy AI without the burden of building their own infrastructure, bringing AI solutions to market faster and driving innovation across their industries.

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.”

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 organisations scale AI across operations, products, and customer experiences, access to diverse AI technologies and specialised 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 operationalise AI at scale and create measurable business impact.”

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."

This partnership aligns with FPT’s broader AI-first approach, enabled by its FleziPT end-to-end AI platform, CASAN AI maturity framework, AI factories in Vietnam and Japan, and more than 30,000 AI-augmented engineers globally. Notably, FPT’s AI factories in Japan and Vietnam ranked 36th and 38th, respectively, among the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems.

With the core philosophy of Build Your Own AI, FPT AI Factory aims to make AI accessible and deployable for every organisation. Powered by NVIDIA technologies, the platform currently provides an all-in-one AI cloud platform to more than 18,000 AI developers and over 2,000 enterprises worldwide. The agreement with NAVER Cloud further expands FPT's global technology partner network and reinforces its AI factory strategy in the region.

The Naver Cloud alliance is one of several agreements with Korean partners inked by FPT in October. FPT and South Korean enterprise software provider Inswave recently signed a MoU to expand collaboration in talent development, system integration (SI), and application delivery in South Korea. The partnership will combine Inswave’s enterprise software expertise with FPT’s large-scale delivery capabilities to build specialised technology talent and strengthen enterprise application delivery for customers across sectors.

FPT has also become a Gold Partner of IAS, a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution provider and developer of the Canias ERP platform. The collaboration aims to expand ERP implementation and support services for Korea's manufacturing and automotive industries, while addressing the shortage of high-quality ERP specialists in the market. 

Since entering South Korea more than a decade ago, FPT has expanded its presence across the country's major business hubs, including Seoul, Daegu, and Pangyo. It has also become a trusted technology partner to leading enterprises such as LG Electronics, LG CNS, Shinhan Bank, and Shinsegae I&C, supporting digital transformation and AI innovation across the market.