NVIDIA and Korea Expand Sovereign AI Collaboration
NVIDIA and South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT are expanding their sovereign AI collaboration across semiconductors, infrastructure, models, talent and security. The work also includes a partnership with SK Telecom and Rebellions to advance infrastructure for Korean AI workloads.
- NVIDIA and MSIT are expanding cooperation across Korea’s sovereign AI ecosystem.
- Korean NPU and XPU companies may explore participation in NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.
- Three consortia and four foundation model builders will use NVIDIA Dynamo.
- SK Telecom and Rebellions are collaborating on infrastructure for Korean AI workloads.
Collaboration spans Korea’s AI ecosystem
NVIDIA said its expanded collaboration with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, or MSIT, covers a broad set of areas in the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem. These include AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent, startups, models, agents and security.
The announcement positions sovereign AI as an ecosystem effort rather than a project focused on computing hardware alone. NVIDIA and MSIT are working across the infrastructure and skills needed to develop and operate Korean AI systems, while also involving companies and organizations building chips, models and AI applications.
Korean chip companies may explore NVLink Fusion
The collaboration lays the groundwork for Korean NPU and XPU companies to explore participation in the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem. NVIDIA did not provide further details in the announcement about which companies may participate or when that participation could begin.
NVIDIA also said it will provide training and certification programs, hackathons and technical seminars. The stated aim is to strengthen GPU utilization in Korea, adding education and technical development to the infrastructure partnership.
Dynamo to support selected AI groups
Under Korea’s AI for All initiative, NVIDIA will collaborate with three selected consortia and four leading Korean foundation model builders. The companies and groups will use NVIDIA Dynamo software to optimize and scale AI inference.
Inference is the stage when an AI model processes requests and produces results. In the announcement, NVIDIA connected Dynamo with efforts to help the selected Korean organizations scale that work, although it did not disclose performance figures or other quantitative results.
SK Telecom and Rebellions join infrastructure effort
NVIDIA also announced a collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions, supported by MSIT. The partnership will focus on advancing sovereign AI infrastructure for Korean models and workloads with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.
For users and the Korean AI market, the announcement points to a coordinated approach that combines NVIDIA infrastructure and software with local chip companies, telecommunications expertise, Korean model builders and government support. The source describes the areas of cooperation, but does not provide details on product availability, deployment dates or commercial terms.
