Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, has joined hands with U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm to expand the application of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Clova.

Clova co-developed with the company’s messaging app Line is similar to Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Google’s voice-activated Assistant.

Under an agreement signed with Qualcomm`s subsidiary Qualcomm Technologies, Naver will provide Clova for use with Qualcomm`s Internet of Things (IoT) chip processors, according to Naver on Monday.

Naver also plans to provide Clova smartphones equipped with Qualcomm`s mobile processors as a basic AI system platform.

“The cooperation with Qualcomm will help us accelerate the overall development ecosystem of the Clova-based AI system platform,” Naver CEO Han Seong-sook said.

By Cho Hee-young

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