Morning Edition · Saturday, July 25, 2026Published at 1:43 AM EDT · New York
South Korea Commits to Roughly 260,000 Nvidia GPUs for Sovereign AI
Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai, and Naver plan up to 50,000 or more accelerators each, with the government deploying as many as 50,000 through domestic clouds, starting with 13,000 Blackwell chips.
South Korea has set out a national plan to build sovereign artificial-intelligence infrastructure on Nvidia hardware, with the country's largest industrial groups and its government together deploying about 260,000 Nvidia graphics processor…
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