NVIDIA is deepening its footprint in South Korea through a pair of major partnerships announced during a visit by founder and CEO Jensen Huang to Seoul.
According to the NVIDIA blog, the company and LG Group are building an AI factory together — a shared computing infrastructure designed to help LG accelerate businesses spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies, and GPU cloud services. The facility will be used to train, simulate, and validate AI systems.
Separately, NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding an existing collaboration focused on physical AI, robotics, and AI factory infrastructure. The partnership spans multiple Doosan divisions, including Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility, and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials BG, according to NVIDIA's blog.
The deals are part of a broader push NVIDIA describes as building sovereign AI infrastructure in South Korea — meaning domestically owned and operated AI computing capacity, rather than reliance on foreign cloud providers. NVIDIA's blog characterizes South Korea as one of the world's centers of AI, noting the country's robotics industry and its role as a hub for cutting-edge sovereign AI development.
The South China Morning Post also covered the announcements, framing them as a look at how NVIDIA's South Korean AI deals stack up competitively.
The partnerships matter because they show how NVIDIA is moving beyond selling chips to embedding itself as the infrastructure backbone for entire national AI strategies — making South Korea a test case for what sovereign, industrial-scale AI development looks like in practice.