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Korea shifts science and AI policy from strategy to results, focusing on pilots and commercialisation

South Korea\'s science and AI policy is moving from strategy-setting to producing results, with more emphasis on pilot projects and commercialisation, the Ministry of Science and ICT and other agencies said. Since the first ministerial meeting on science and technology on Nov. 24 last year, the government has held 12 meetings through Aug. 24. Early discussions centred on AI strategy and infrastructure such as GPUs, later shifting to R&D commercialisation, data policy, physical AI, agentic AI and autonomous-driving AI roadmaps.

AI & Enterprise

South Korea to invest over 200 trillion won in R&D by 2030, secure 260,000 GPUs

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said it finalised its Sixth Basic Plan for Science and Technology for 2026 to 2030 after approval by the National Science and Technology Advisory Council. The plan calls for investing more than 200 trillion won in government R&D over five years and spreading an AI shift across the country. It includes securing 260,000 public-private GPUs, building a sixth supercomputer and a national AI computing centre, and focusing over 60 trillion won on 10 strategic technology fields.

AI & Enterprise

Japan joins U.S. AI project Genesis Mission to co-invest $1 billion over five years

Japan will join the U.S. government’s artificial intelligence research project Genesis Mission as its first overseas partner. The two countries plan to invest $1 billion over five years to jointly develop technology to accelerate scientific research. Senior officials from Japan’s education and industry ministries are to visit the United States in early June and officially announce cooperation measures with the Department of Energy, which oversees the programme.