{"id":1529082,"date":"2026-03-17T20:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ofGxmMkNUifSAKHY3tygvQ"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:02:14","slug":"pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBG maker Krafton is an AI defense company now, signs deal with Korean aerospace firm that includes investment of up to $1 billion aiming &#8216;to expand the physical AI ecosystem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>PUBG maker Krafton is getting into the defense business: The company has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.krafton.com\/en\/news\/krafton-and-hanwha-aerospace-announce-strategic-alliance-on-physical-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">signed an investment deal with Hanwha Aerospace<\/a> that aims to &#8220;develop and commercialize technology across various sectors, including defense,&#8221; with a particular focus on &#8220;physical AI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Krafton formalized its intent to become an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/krafton-is-now-an-ai-first-company-will-spend-usd70-million-on-a-gpu-cluster-to-serve-as-the-foundation-for-accelerating-the-implementation-of-agentic-ai\/\">AI-first company<\/a>&#8221; in 2025, a move that included a commitment to spend $70 million on a GPU cluster that will &#8220;serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI.&#8221; Agentic AI is, simply put, AI that operates with some degree of autonomy: You tell it what to do, and it goes and does it. Kind of like me!<\/p>\n<p>Physical AI, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/glossary\/generative-physical-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\">defined by Nvidia<\/a>, &#8220;lets autonomous systems like cameras, robots, and self-driving cars perceive, understand, reason, and perform or orchestrate complex actions in the physical world.&#8221; I am compelled at this point to state that, despite the most fervent wishes of grasping AI tech executives, AI neither understands nor reasons anything, but for now we&#8217;ll just roll with it.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of the deal says Krafton&#8217;s &#8220;experience in operating large-scale game data and physics-based virtual worlds serve as core assets in training and verifying physical AI software.&#8221; It&#8217;s essentially the brains, in other words, while Hanwha <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hanwha.com\/companies\/hanwha-aerospace.do\" target=\"_blank\">provides the muscle<\/a>, in the form of everything from space launch systems and aircraft engines to artillery, armored vehicles, air defense hardware, fire control systems, and precision guided munitions.<\/p>\n<p>The deal includes both a &#8220;strategic alliance&#8221; between Krafton and Hanwha &#8220;to develop and commercialize technology across various sectors, including defense,&#8221; as well as a commitment on the part of Krafton to invest up to $1 billion into a Hanwha Asset Management fund that &#8220;aims to expand the physical AI ecosystem and strengthen technology competitiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If your immediate reaction to <em>&#8216;autonomous AIs for in-world weapons&#8217; <\/em>is that they&#8217;re inventing terminators, well, I don&#8217;t want to sensationalize or anything but yes, that&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s going on. And maybe I&#8217;m stretching the definition of &#8220;exactly&#8221; here just a little bit, but Krafton CAIO Kangwook Lee\u2014also the CTO of Ludo Robotics, a US-based &#8220;AI and robotics laboratory dedicated to the advancement of physical AI&#8221;\u2014recently posted a message on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kangwook_lee\/status\/2024781354232356946\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> that led with this very distinctive image, and you can make of it what you will:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1024px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:73.83%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"LPkcumaup9kcCszuMdUsBn\" name=\"kang\" alt=\"How we reached 74.8% on terminal-bench with Terminus KIRA\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><a href='https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem.png' target='_blank' class='expand-button icon-expand-image icon' ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Kangwook Lee (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Krafton CEO<strong> <\/strong>Kim Chang-han sealed the<em> &#8216;I find this all rather alarming&#8217;<\/em> deal by saying he expects the partnership to result in &#8220;a global defense technology company like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/palmer-luckey-says-he-wants-to-turn-warfighters-into-technomancers-as-anduril-takes-over-production-of-the-us-armys-ivas-ar-headset-from-microsoft\/\">Anduril<\/a>,&#8221; the company founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey that specializes in &#8220;advanced autonomous systems&#8221; and bemoaning the decline of the American empire.<\/p>\n<p>Kim is also known for his personal enthusiasm for AI: After being advised by his team that trying to avoid paying a $250 million earnout to the heads of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds would likely end in legal action, for example, he reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/after-krafton-denied-its-ceo-consulted-with-chatgpt-on-the-subnautica-2-mess-krafton-ceo-says-he-consulted-with-chatgpt-on-the-subnautica-2-mess\/\">turned to ChatGPT<\/a> for a second opinion and followed its advice instead. Krafton was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/in-a-wild-turn-for-the-subnautica-2-lawsuit-a-judge-orders-krafton-to-restore-fired-unknown-worlds-ceo-and-gives-them-9-more-months-to-earn-usd250-million-bonus\/\">demolished by the former heads of Unknown Worlds<\/a> in a lawsuit filed after Kim terminated them in what the judge said was a &#8220;pretext&#8221; to avoid paying the $250 million earnout.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-usd1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUBG maker Krafton is getting into the defense business: The company has signed an investment deal with Hanwha Aerospace that aims to &#8220;develop and commercialize technology across various sectors, including defense,&#8221; with a particular focus on &#8220;physical AI.&#8221; Krafton formalized its intent to become an &#8220;AI-first company&#8221; in 2025, a move that included a commitment to spend $70 million on a GPU cluster that will &#8220;serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI.&#8221; Agentic AI is, simply put, AI that operates with some degree of autonomy: You tell it what to do, and it goes and does it. 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Physical AI, as defined by Nvidia, &#8220;lets autonomous systems like cameras, robots, and self-driving cars perceive, understand, reason, and perform&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/pubg-maker-krafton-is-an-ai-defense-company-now-signs-deal-with-korean-aerospace-firm-that-includes-investment-of-up-to-1-billion-aiming-to-expand-the-physical-ai-ecosystem\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1529083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1529082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PUBG maker Krafton is 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