Nvidia and Google Cloud are expanding cooperation to build hyperscale infrastructure for next-generation agentic AI and physical AI. The companies plan to expand the Google Cloud AI Hypercomputer and offer A5X bare-metal instances based on Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform. Nvidia said A5X can scale to 80,000 GPUs at a single site and up to 960,000 GPUs across multi-site clusters, while improving throughput per watt and reducing inference costs per token.

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.