[Alpha Biz=(Chicago) Reporter Kim Jisun] Naver announced on the 5th (local time) that it has signed a partnership with Aramco Digital, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, for digital innovation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Saudi Arabia.

Aramco Digital is a digital and technology subsidiary of Aramco, a global energy and chemical integration company, and aims to lead digital transformation and technological innovation in various sectors.

Through this agreement, the two companies agreed to build a Sovereign cloud and super app optimized for the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, and cooperate in the development of Sovereign AI based on the Arabic language model (LLM).

Under the big direction of 'Sovereign AI', Naver plans to build an AI model optimized for local culture and language based on its own LLM technology and provide various solutions based on it.

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