Nvidia said it is expanding a sovereign-AI partnership with South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT, including a collaboration with SK Telecom and chipmaker Rebellions to connect Korean processors to Nvidia data-center systems^1,2.

The Korea Herald, citing the ministry, said Nvidia, SK Telecom and Rebellions signed a memorandum of understanding Monday at Nvidia’s AI Day Seoul event at Coex².

Under that memorandum, the companies will use Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion technology to link Rebellions neural processing units with Nvidia GPUs as SK Telecom develops AI data-center infrastructure, the newspaper reported².

Nvidia’s blog described NVLink Fusion as part of a wider ministry-backed effort that also covers talent, startups, models, agents and security, and said the work lays groundwork for Korean NPU and XPU companies to explore the Fusion ecosystem¹.

The Herald said NVLink Fusion lets third-party chipmakers put processors into Nvidia’s rack-scale architecture so different accelerators can share infrastructure².

For Rebellions, the paper said the deal creates a chance to test chips inside Nvidia’s architecture and seek customers overseas, and that the ministry argued access to Nvidia’s platform could help Korean chipmakers move beyond standalone product development².

The agreement comes as demand for AI inference, which uses trained models to generate responses, is driving interest in specialized chips meant to lower operating costs, the Herald reported, with the ministry saying combined NPUs and GPUs could help data centers balance performance and power use².

Nvidia said that through Korea’s AI for All initiative it will work with three selected consortia and four leading Korean foundation-model builders, using NVIDIA Dynamo software to optimize and scale inference¹.

The company also said it will offer training and certification programs, hackathons and technical seminars intended to strengthen GPU utilization¹.

“We hope this forum will help Korean companies find opportunities for technological and business cooperation with Nvidia and ultimately expand into global markets together,” said Lee Do-kyu, deputy minister for ICT policy, according to The Korea Herald².

The ministry pledged support for follow-up work, including joint research, commercialization and eventual overseas sales, the newspaper reported².

Nvidia’s post did not detail the Coex signing or Lee’s remarks; the Herald did not describe Dynamo, the AI for All consortia or the training programs^1,2.