South Korea\'s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency will co-host Nvidia Nemotron Developer Day Seoul from April 21 to 24 at Front1 in Mapo, Seoul. The event will share research on Nvidia\'s open-source AI model Nemotron and build practical skills for local developers. Nvidia researchers will introduce synthetic data strategies and reinforcement learning for optimization. A panel with four consortia will discuss AI competitiveness and global expansion. A two-day hackathon will also be held.

South Korea\'s second round of government support for graphics processing units has attracted five bidders, including first-round winner Naver Cloud and first-round loser Coupang, both re-entering. KT Cloud, Samsung SDS and Elice Group joined as new participants. The science ministry set evaluation criteria including economic feasibility, large scale, direct clustering, latest GPUs and service launch within the year. Officials plan evaluations and site inspections in April and May before selecting operators in May.