🇰🇷 South Korea Kicks Off $10B AI Push with First NVIDIA Chips

South Korea has received its first batch of 13,000 NVIDIA GPUs, including the latest B200 models. This delivery launches a massive national initiative to deploy 260,000 advanced AI chips nationwide, part of a strategic partnership estimated at $10.4 billion to cement the country's status as a global AI hub.​

Funded by a 1.4 trillion won ($952.7 million) government budget, these initial chips will be distributed starting early 2026 to universities, research institutes, and startups. They will be housed in domestic cloud data centers, providing critical computing power to drive innovation across the public and private sectors.

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