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Sovereign AI, building a domestic NPU ecosystem and opportunities for regions
An October announcement that Nvidia would supply 260,000 GPUs to South Korea was seen as a diplomatic gain, but most supply is concentrated among large companies. About 20 percent is available for academia, research institutes and startups, with the government leasing capacity from cloud firms. The author argues AI demand is shifting toward low-latency inference, where domestic NPUs could be deployed, but cheap large-scale GPU supply could crowd them out. He calls for regional distributed inference hubs using idle public assets and local demand aggregation.
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Korea Artificial Intelligence Association marks 10th anniversary, aims to lead real-world AI expansion
The Korea Artificial Intelligence Association marked its 10th anniversary and set a goal of shifting into a private-sector leadership platform that presents technology direction in the AI era and the global order. At an event held on May 7 at AI Expo Korea, it shared a plan to lead expansion beyond large language models and generative AI into agent AI, world models and physical AI. It also outlined four governance initiatives to realize the vision.
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MSIT and MSS to hold additional AI policy briefings for SMEs and startups
South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups will hold additional “AI+” policy briefings for AI-focused small and venture firms, they said on March 24. The briefings aim to strengthen corporate readiness after the AI Basic Act took effect in January and to gather on-the-ground feedback during the regulatory grace period. Three sessions are planned from April to August, alongside YouTube live streams and counselling programmes.