Seoul, March 16 -- South Korea has held early talks with Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI model, as Seoul looks to broaden its engagement with major global artificial intelligence companies beyond OpenAI, according to the Ministry of Science and ICT.

As per a report from the Korea Herald, a ministry official said that Deputy Prime Minister and Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon met Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei at an AI summit in India in February, where the two discussed AI technology, industry trends and the possibility of future cooperation.

"But nothing has been decided on a memorandum of understanding or any specific form of cooperation," the official said, as per the Korea Herald report, emphasising that the tal...