NVIDIA and South Korea expand sovereign AI collaboration

An agreement from chips to skills

NVIDIA and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) announced they are expanding their collaboration across the country's sovereign AI ecosystem. The scope runs from AI semiconductors and data center infrastructure to talent training, startups, models, agents and security.

A door to NVLink Fusion

The collaboration lays the groundwork for Korean NPU and XPU companies to explore participation in NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion ecosystem. NVLink Fusion is an approach that lets accelerators from different vendors work together using NVIDIA's interconnect technology.

Training and community programs

As part of the effort, NVIDIA training and certification programs, hackathons and technical seminars will be held to strengthen GPU utilization.

Models and inference

Under Korea's "AI for All" initiative, NVIDIA will work with three selected consortia and four leading Korean foundation model builders. These teams will use NVIDIA Dynamo software to optimize and scale AI inference.

SK Telecom and Rebellions collaboration

NVIDIA also announced, with MSIT support, a collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions to advance sovereign AI infrastructure for Korean models and workloads using NVLink Fusion.