Nvidia expands AI ties with Hyundai, Samsung, SK, Naver

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea for the archetypal clip successful 15 years to unveil caller plans and deepen collaboration with large Korean tech companies — including Hyundai Motor, Samsung, SK, and Naver. During this week’s APEC Summit 2025, Nvidia and the South Korean authorities announced an expanded concern to boost the country’s AI infrastructure and physical AI capabilities.

The announcement comes conscionable days after the U.S. signed exertion deals with Japan and South Korea, aiming to deepen strategical ties and boost collaboration connected emerging technologies, including AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, biotech, and 6G.

South Korea volition unafraid implicit 260,000 of Nvidia’s latest GPUs to conscionable increasing AI demands, the South Korean authorities announced connected Friday. Around 50,000 GPUs volition enactment nationalist initiatives, including the development of home AI instauration models and a nationalist AI information center. The remaining implicit 200,000 GPUs volition spell to companies specified arsenic Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver, driving AI-based manufacturing innovation and industry-specific AI exemplary development.

Nvidia, Samsung squad up connected AI mill and AI-RAN for 6G 

Samsung also announced plans to physique an AI Megafactory successful concern with Nvidia, bringing AI into each signifier of its manufacturing for semiconductors, mobile devices, and robotics. Using much than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and the Omniverse platform, the installation volition signifier an intelligent web susceptible of analyzing, predicting, and optimizing accumulation successful existent time.

Samsung and Nvidia, partners for implicit 25 years, are present collaborating connected HBM4, a next-generation representation designed to powerfulness aboriginal AI applications.

Nvidia volition enactment with Samsung, 3 Korean telecom operators — SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus — and ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) to co-develop AI-RAN, according to the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT.

AI-RAN combines mobile basal stations with AI to boost show and chopped artillery use, and nether a caller agreement, Nvidia and South Korea’s manufacture and probe institutions volition jointly make next-generation AI-RAN and a planetary testbed, the Korean authorities stated.

In mid-October, Nvidia said Samsung Foundry will assistance marque customized CPUs and XPUs, pursuing its enactment with Intel to link x86 CPUs straight to Nvidia platforms via NVLink Fusion.

Hyundai drives aboriginal mobility with AI factory

Meanwhile, Hyundai and Nvidia are joining forces to physique AI infrastructure and beforehand technologies successful carnal AI. The concern plans to absorption connected autonomous mobility, astute factories, and robotics, portion collaborating connected high-performance GPU proviso and investment

According to Nvidia, the companies volition usage 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for integrated AI exemplary training, validation, and deployment, and volition found AI probe centers successful South Korea to fortify the country’s carnal AI industry.

“AI is revolutionizing each facet of each industry, and successful proscription unsocial — from conveyance plan and manufacturing to robotics and autonomous driving — Nvidia’s AI and computing platforms are transforming however the satellite moves,” said Huang. “Together with Hyundai Motor Group — Korea’s concern powerhouse and 1 of the world’s apical mobility solutions providers — we’re gathering intelligent cars and factories that volition signifier the aboriginal of the multitrillion-dollar mobility industry.”

SK builds AI cloud; Naver partners connected carnal AI

SK Group, genitor of SK Hynix, is partnering with Nvidia to physique Asia’s archetypal enterprise-led manufacturing AI cloud, leveraging Nvidia’s simulation and integer duplicate platforms and opening entree to the government, nationalist institutions, and home startups.

Naver Cloud, the unreality limb of Korean hunt motor Naver, is collaborating with NVIDIA to make a next-generation “Physical AI” level that connects the carnal and integer worlds. The unreality institution intends to deploy AI infrastructure crossed cardinal industries, including semiconductors, shipbuilding, energy, and biotechnology, aiming to accelerate the adoption of AI solutions optimized for real-world concern environments, according to Naver.

“Just arsenic the automotive manufacture is transitioning to SDVs, the epoch of ‘Physical AI,’ wherever AI operates straight wrong existent concern sites and systems, is unfolding,” Hae-jin Lee, laminitis of Naver, said successful Naver’s statement.

Nvidia’s collaborations with Korean large tech giants — from Samsung’s AI web initiatives to Hyundai’s software-defined vehicles, SK Group’s concern AI applications, and Naver’s unreality and AI services — item a broader trend, which is the fusion of AI and hardware crossed industries. These partnerships amusement however planetary tech leaders are joining forces to signifier the adjacent procreation of intelligent systems.

Earlier this week, the U.S. tech elephantine announced a question of caller partnerships with companies including Eli Lilly, Palantir, Hyundai, Samsung, Uber, and Joby Aviation, on with the U.S. Department of Energy, arsenic CEO Jensen Huang sought to downplay concerns astir an AI bubble. The quality sent its banal soaring, arsenic Nvidia became the archetypal publically traded institution to surpass a $5 trillion marketplace capitalization.