On November 9, AI chip giant NVIDIA officially held its highly anticipated NVIDIA AI Day event in Seoul, South Korea. At the event, NVIDIA announced a series of deep collaborations with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), as well as leading local companies and research institutions such as Samsung, LG Electronics, and Hyundai Motor Group, drawing widespread attention from the tech world.
Deepening Sovereign AI Ecosystem Development, Fully Empowering Local Large Models and Infrastructure
At the national-level cooperation level, NVIDIA and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) further expanded their strategic collaboration on the sovereign AI ecosystem, covering key areas such as AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, professional talent development, startup support, large model R&D, agent development, and cybersecurity.
One of the core outcomes of this collaboration is a solid foundation for exploring access for South Korean NPU and XPU companies to NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion ecosystem. At the same time, the two sides will jointly launch NVIDIA training and certification programs, hackathons, and technical workshops to comprehensively improve overall GPU utilization efficiency. In addition, driven by South Korea's "AI for All" initiative, NVIDIA will work with four South Korean foundation model builders—SK Telecom (A.X K2), LG AI Research (K-EXAONE2.0), Upstage (Solar Open2), and Motif Technologies (Motif-3)—to fully optimize and scale AI inference using NVIDIA Dynamo software. NVIDIA also announced a collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions to jointly advance sovereign AI infrastructure for South Korean local models and workloads based on NVLink Fusion, with support from MSIT.
Hardware Innovation and Autonomous Driving: Samsung, LG, and Hyundai Fully On Board
On the enterprise deployment front, major South Korean giants announced their latest collaboration progress with NVIDIA:
Samsung Electronics: It is further expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA, using accelerated computing and AI physics technologies to drive innovation in semiconductors, with cooperation spanning materials research, process development, and device engineering.
Kakao Mobility: It plans to comprehensively advance R&D of a Level 4 autonomous driving system based on NVIDIA's advanced autonomous driving computing and safety technologies. The project cleverly combines Kakao Mobility's proprietary driving software, its real-world operating experience in Seoul's Gangnam District, and NVIDIA's powerful vehicle computing platform.
LG Electronics and LG AI Research: NVIDIA and LG Electronics successfully demonstrated on site the use of LG's CLOiD robot to perform robot operations and manufacturing tasks powered by NVIDIA Isaac GR00T in a real manufacturing environment. Meanwhile, LG AI Research officially opened API access to K-EXAONE-2.5, a version developed specifically using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets (including Nemotron-Personas-Korea).
Agent Security and Smart Manufacturing: Hyundai Motor and AIM Intelligence Deeply Involved
In the areas of intelligent robotics and enterprise workflow security, Hyundai Motor Group and local security companies are also making frequent moves:
Hyundai Motor Group: It is currently actively exploring the application of NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime to empower relevant business scenarios.
AIM Intelligence: This South Korean AI security company is deeply integrating its Starfort agent control platform with NVIDIA OpenShell. The core goal of this integration is to perfectly combine OpenShell's runtime access control with Starfort's detection capabilities for malicious instructions and data leaks, comprehensively improving employee productivity and the security standards of the overall workflow. The company is also currently considering an initial proof of concept for applying it in the public energy sector, with potential future applications broadly covering enterprise, industrial, and robotics fields, among others.
