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AI & Enterprise
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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K-AI policy control tower reshuffled, Bae Kyung-hoon\'s role grows
The centre of gravity in the government\'s artificial intelligence policy control tower is shifting toward Vice Prime Minister Bae Kyung-hoon, who also heads the Ministry of Science and ICT. Key figures who led national AI policy have left vacancies after running in elections, increasing Bae\'s workload. He will also oversee operations of the National AI Strategy Committee for the time being. The government is pushing multiple AI initiatives and is reviewing gaps among 326 tasks, prompting calls for swift follow-up appointments.
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Samsung SDS consortium selected as operator for national AI computing centre project
South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT on May 11 finalised the Samsung SDS consortium as the private participant in a national AI computing centre construction project. The consortium includes Samsung SDS, Naver Cloud, Samsung C&T, Kakao, Samsung Electronics, Clush, KT, South Jeolla Province and Seonamhaean Enterprise City Development. The ministry signed agreements to confirm the operator and plan and to set up a special purpose company. Initial funding totals 400 billion won, with a longer-term buildout of 2.5 trillion won.
