Nvidia has announced a major commitment to expand artificial intelligence infrastructure in South Korea, pledging to supply over 260,000 state-of-the-art GPUs as part of national AI development efforts.
The initiative is in partnership with the South Korean government and leading conglomerates including Hyundai Motor Group, Samsung Electronics, SK Group, and Naver Cloud. Each partner will launch its own AI-driven project, ranging from AI factories to local large language model (LLM) development.
The agreements were confirmed during the APEC summit in Gyeongju.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called South Korea a strategic hub for global AI innovation.
“Korea’s leadership in technology and manufacturing positions it at the heart of the AI industrial revolution,” Huang said, noting the country’s potential to export “intelligence” the way it has advanced ships, cars, and electronics.
The partnership marks one of Nvidia’s most significant Asia-led AI infrastructure collaborations to date and reinforces South Korea’s ambition to become a global AI powerhouse.
