SK hynix Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

OpenAI promises to supply two South Korean companies with demand for memory chips at twice the current global capacity 

Samsung shares hit 4-year high, SK Hynix hits record after OpenAI deal

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Elon Musk became the first whose fortune reached $500 billion. At the same time, his company SpaceX lost to OpenAI, which received a valuation of a similar amount - $500 billion - after the secondary sale of employee shares for $6.6 billion. Now the ChatGPT developer is the most expensive private company in the world. Thanks to the partnership with OpenAI, the quotes of South Korean Samsung and SK Hynix jumped up. These and other topics are in our review of the key events for the morning of October 2.

Top story for the morning: Musk's fortune hits $500 billion, OpenAI beats SpaceX in valuation

LG Electronics Inc.

Among the leaders in the global AI race, the United States and China are most often named. American language models - ChatGPT, Grok, Claude - are recognized as the best (according to <a href="https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/capabilities/latest/">Stanford</a>, for example, and <a href="https://lmarena.ai/leaderboard">LMArena</a>), the key AI chip supplier, Nvidia, also comes from the United States. The most famous projects from China are DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen model; in France, Mistral; in the Middle East, government investments have allowed the launch of their own models - <a href="https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2ednrsm6eglrmfzs429ds/long-reads/article-inside-falcon-the-uaes-open-source-model-challenging-ai-giants?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Falcon LLM</a> in the UAE and <a href="https://www.g42.ai/resources/news/meet-jais-worlds-most-advanced-arabic-llm-open-sourced-g42s-inception?utm_source=chatgpt.com">Jais</a> in Saudi Arabia.

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KLA Corporation

Applied Materials, Inc.

Lam Research Corporation

The ban would limit Samsung and SK Hynix's ability to manufacture chips in China and jeopardize Beijing's access to a range of technologies

The US has banned shipments of chipmaker equipment to China. Who will lose from this?

Investors are undervaluing Samsung, says Ninety One Global Strategy, manager of one of the most profitable Asian equities funds in the world

Morningstar called Korean stocks the best bet in Asia and emerging markets

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

SK Hynix and Samsung quotes rose sharply amid weakening geopolitical risks

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Samsung shares hit 4-year high, SK Hynix hits record after OpenAI deal

Top story for the morning: Musk's fortune hits $500 billion, OpenAI beats SpaceX in valuation

South Korea is staging its own AI revolution: which companies are on board

The US has banned shipments of chipmaker equipment to China. Who will lose from this?

Morningstar called Korean stocks the best bet in Asia and emerging markets

Korean stocks emerged as the top gainers in Asia after de-escalation in the Middle East