·Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon (left) and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (ICT Ministry, Yonhap) Korea’s ICT minister met Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Seoul on Monday to discuss bringing more of the US chipmaker’s AI computing infrastructure to Korea and expanding cooperation in physical AI.
·Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon met Huang during Nvidia’s Korea AI Ecosystem Reception in Seoul, the Ministry of Science and ICT said.
·Talks focused on the planned delivery of 260,000 Nvidia GPUs, the introduction of Vera Rubin-based AI factories in Korea, and closer cooperation between Nvidia and Korean universities, research institutes and companies.
·Bae also asked Nvidia to work with Korea to introduce AI factories based on Vera Rubin NVL72, its latest AI computing platform, by year-end.
·“By working strategically with Nvidia, Korea can build on its strengths in semiconductors, manufacturing and AI to create use cases across a wide range of industries, rather than simply exchanging components and infrastructure,” Bae said.
