Korea Government, Computing and Manufacturing Leaders Adding Over 260,000 NVIDIA GPUs for Physical and Agentic AI<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe Korean government, through the Ministry of Science and ICT, is investing in sovereign AI infrastructure with over 50,000 of the latest NVIDIA GPUs to be deployed across the National AI Computing Center and Korean cloud service and IT providers NHN Cloud, Kakao Corp. and NAVER Cloud.
\n\tSamsung Electronics is building an AI factory with over 50,000 GPUs to accelerate its AI, semiconductor and digital transformation roadmap.
\n\tSK Group is building an AI factory featuring over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs and Asia\u2019s first industrial AI cloud featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for physical AI and robotics workloads.
\n\tHyundai Motor Group is collaborating with NVIDIA and the Korean government in building an NVIDIA AI factory with 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to enable integrated AI model training, validation and deployment for manufacturing and autonomous driving.
\n\tNAVER Cloud is expanding its NVIDIA AI infrastructure with over 60,000 GPUs for enterprise and physical AI workloads.
\n\tNAVER Cloud, LG AI Research, SK Telecom, NC AI, Upstage and NVIDIA are developing Korean foundation LLMs to accelerate Korean AI applications\u200b through public-private partnerships.
\n\tThe Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information is establishing a Center of Excellence for the advancement of quantum computing and science.
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APEC Summit\u2014NVIDIA today announced that it is working with South Korea to expand the nation\u2019s AI infrastructure with over a quarter-million NVIDIA GPUs across its sovereign clouds and AI factories. Built with public- and private-sector deployments, the infrastructure forms the foundation for AI-enabled economic growth and innovation across Korea\u2019s industries, including automotive, manufacturing and telecommunications.<\/p>\n
\u201cKorea\u2019s leadership in technology and manufacturing positions it at the heart of the AI industrial revolution \u2014 where accelerated computing infrastructure becomes as vital as power grids and broadband,\u201d said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. \u201cJust as Korea\u2019s physical factories have inspired the world with sophisticated ships, cars, chips and electronics, the nation can now produce intelligence as a new export that will drive global transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that AI has gone beyond mere innovation and become the foundation of future industries, South Korea stands at the threshold of transformation,\u201d said Bae Kyung-hoon, Korea Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technologies. \u201cExpanding our national AI infrastructure and developing technologies with NVIDIA is an investment that will further reinforce South Korea\u2019s strengths, including its manufacturing capabilities. This will support South Korea\u2019s prosperity as it strives to become one of the top three global AI powerhouses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Announced as world leaders gather in South Korea for the APEC Summit, the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) is accelerating its plans to deploy up to 50,000 of the latest NVIDIA GPUs to accelerate sovereign AI development for enterprises and industries. The AI infrastructure deployment will grow over the next several years from an initial deployment of 13,000 NVIDIA Blackwell<\/a> and other GPUs by NVIDIA Cloud Partner<\/a> NAVER Cloud, together with NHN Cloud and Kakao Corp., to expand computing infrastructure on the nation\u2019s sovereign clouds through initiatives such as the establishment of Korea\u2019s National AI Computing Center.<\/p>\n Research institutes, startups and AI companies will be able to use the sovereign infrastructure to build models and applications, supporting Korea\u2019s national strategy to boost AI capabilities and infrastructure.<\/p>\n In addition, NVIDIA is working with industries, academia and research institutions in Korea on AI-RAN and 6G infrastructure. NVIDIA is collaborating with Samsung, SK Telecom, ETRI, KT, LGU+ and Yonsei University to develop intelligent, low-power AI-RAN network technology that can reduce computing costs and extend device battery life by offloading GPU computation tasks to the network\u2019s base station.<\/p>\n Korea\u2019s Industry Titans Build NVIDIA AI Factories for Advanced Manufacturing Samsung<\/a> is building a semiconductor AI factory with over 50,000 GPUs to advance intelligent manufacturing and bring AI to its products and services. It is using NVIDIA technologies, including NVIDIA Nemotron<\/a>\u2122 post-training datasets, NVIDIA CUDA-X<\/a>\u2122, the NVIDIA cuLitho<\/a> library and NVIDIA Omniverse<\/a>\u2122, to build digital twins that improve the speed and yields of sophisticated semiconductor manufacturing processes. Samsung is also using NVIDIA Cosmos<\/a>\u2122, NVIDIA Isaac Sim\u2122<\/a> and NVIDIA Isaac Lab<\/a> to advance its home robot development portfolio.<\/p>\n SK Group<\/a> is designing an AI factory that can host over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to advance semiconductor research, development and production, as well as cloud infrastructure to support digital twin and AI agent development. SK Telecom plans to provide sovereign infrastructure featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO\u2122 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs<\/a>, enabling domestic manufacturers to tap into NVIDIA Omniverse. The company will offer industrial cloud infrastructure to accelerate digital twin and robotics projects for startups, enterprises and government agencies.<\/p>\n Hyundai Motor Group<\/a> and NVIDIA are entering a new phase of deepened collaboration and will codevelop AI capabilities across mobility, smart factories and on-device semiconductors, powered by 50,000 Blackwell GPUs for AI model training and deployment. In support of the Korean government\u2019s initiative to build a national physical AI cluster, Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA will work closely with government stakeholders to accelerate ecosystem development. This will result in an approximately $3 billion investment to advance the physical AI landscape in Korea. Key initiatives include the creation of an NVIDIA AI Technology Center, Hyundai Motor Group Physical AI Application Center and regional AI data centers.<\/p>\n NAVER Cloud is also expanding its NVIDIA AI infrastructure and plans to deploy over 60,000 GPUs \u2014 including NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and other NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs \u2014 for sovereign and physical AI. NAVER Cloud is preparing for the next stage of sovereign AI development in Korea, powered by NVIDIA Nemotron open models running on its NVIDIA AI infrastructure. NAVER Cloud plans to develop industry-specific AI models like shipbuilding and security, with a focus on inclusive AI for Korea\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n Korea Government and Developers Advance LLM Research With NVIDIA LG AI Research, NAVER Cloud, NC AI, SK Telecom and Upstage are participating in the project to support sovereign model development. Enterprises, researchers and startups will be able to contribute to and use the models to create AI agents with speech, reasoning and other capabilities.<\/p>\n LG is working with NVIDIA to foster physical AI technology development and support the physical AI ecosystem. NVIDIA and LG are also working together to support startups and academia with LG\u2019s EXAONE models \u2014 including the EXAONE Path healthcare model, built with the MONAI framework \u2014 to support cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n Korea and NVIDIA Advance Quantum Computing and Scientific Research KISTI also announced support for the new NVIDIA NVQLink<\/a>\u2122 open architecture for connecting quantum processors and GPU supercomputing. Working with the NVIDIA CUDA-Q<\/a>\u2122 platform, NVQLink equips KISTI to deepen research in areas like quantum error correction and hybrid application development to accelerate the development of tomorrow\u2019s quantum-GPU supercomputers.<\/p>\n KISTI will also build foundation models for scientific research and development, and support researchers on developing physics-informed AI models using the open-source NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo<\/a>\u2122 framework.<\/p>\n New Startup Alliance Supports Korean Development
\nAutomotive, manufacturing and telecommunications leaders in Korea are developing significant AI infrastructure investments and expansions to accelerate enterprise and physical AI development.<\/p>\n
\nTeaming with NVIDIA, Korea\u2019s MSIT is advancing its Sovereign AI Foundation Models project to develop sovereign language models. The project will incorporate NVIDIA NeMo<\/a>\u2122 and open NVIDIA Nemotron datasets to tap local data for developing and distilling reasoning models.<\/p>\n
\nThe Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) is working with NVIDIA to establish a Center of Excellence designed to foster research collaboration using Korea’s sixth-generation national supercomputer, HANGANG, which features NVIDIA accelerated computing.<\/p>\n
\nFurthering economic development and opportunities in Korea, NVIDIA and its partners are establishing an alliance to foster startups through the NVIDIA Inception<\/a> program. Members will be able to access accelerated computing infrastructure from NVIDIA Cloud Partners including SK Telecom, with support from NVIDIA Inception and VC Alliance members including IMM Investment, Korea Investment Partners and SBVA. Startups will also have access to NVIDIA software and expertise, speeding growth for the next generation of companies.<\/p>\n