On November 9, 2026, NVIDIA announced a broad expansion of its AI partnerships across South Korea, spanning sovereign AI infrastructure, physical AI, and autonomous systems. The initiatives involve major Korean companies including SK Telecom, Rebellions, Samsung Electronics, and Kakao Mobility.
Sovereign AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA, Rebellions, and SK Telecom launched a collaboration to advance Korea’s sovereign AI infrastructure utilizing NVIDIA NVLink Fusion. The initiative combines NVIDIA's open infrastructure platform with Rebellions' AI processors and SK Telecom's data center and model capabilities.
Additionally, NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding collaboration across AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent programs, startups, and security.
Physical AI and Manufacturing
Samsung Electronics is expanding its work with NVIDIA to advance semiconductor innovation through accelerated computing and AI physics, including materials research, process development, and device engineering. Samsung utilized NVIDIA cuEST, cuISS, cuDSS, and PhysicsNeMo to accelerate simulations.
NVIDIA and LG Electronics successfully demonstrated NVIDIA Isaac GR00T-powered robotic manipulation using LG’s CLOiD robot in a manufacturing environment. Kakao Mobility is also collaborating with NVIDIA to develop a level 4 autonomous driving system utilizing NVIDIA Hyperion, DRIVE AGX Thor, and NVIDIA Halos.
Agentic AI and Security
Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime for AI agents. AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with NVIDIA OpenShell to support secure AI agents.
LG AI Research is opening API access for K-EXAONE-2.5, which was developed using NVIDIA Nemotron datasets, including the open dataset Nemotron-Personas-Korea consisting of 7 million fully synthetic Korean personas.
Key facts and where they come from
- NVIDIA, Rebellions, and SK Telecom announced a collaboration to advance Korea's sovereign AI infrastructure using NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.
NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom today announced a collaboration to advance Korea’s sovereign AI infrastructure — using NVIDIA NVLink Fusion™ to bring together NVIDIA’s open infrastructure platform, Rebellions’ Korean-designed AI processors and SK Telecom’s AI data center, model and service capabilities.
- Samsung Electronics is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to advance semiconductor innovation through accelerated computing and AI physics.
Samsung Electronics is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to advance semiconductor innovation through accelerated computing and AI physics.
- Kakao Mobility plans to use NVIDIA Hyperion powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor to advance level 4 autonomous driving.
Kakao Mobility plans to use NVIDIA Hyperion, a reference platform for vehicle sensors and compute, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor.
