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Samsung Electronics and five affiliates announced a $1 billion investment in Helix, an AI infrastructure company launched by KKR with backing from Nvidia. The move underscores Samsung's expanding push into global AI infrastructure as major tech and financial firms race to build out data center and computing capacity to meet surging AI demand. The investment adds to a wave of large capital commitments from established tech and financial players into AI infrastructure ventures, reflecting the scale of spending required to compete in the sector.