Seoul: Nvidia plans to deploy up to 260,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in South Korea in partnership with the government and major companies here to build large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) factories in the country, the US chip giant said on Friday.

The initiative will involve the South Korean government and major industry leaders, including Samsung Electronics. Co., SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and Naver Cloud Corp., that will each establish their own AI computing centres powered by Nvidia’s latest Blackwell GPUs, rpeorts Yonhap new agency.

Under the plan, which Nvidia shared in a preview media briefing on Thursday, the Seoul government will allocate up to 50,000 Nvidia GPUs to support the creation of a national “sovereign AI” platform designed to train large language mode

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