Korea to deploy 10,000 Nvidia GPUs in national AI push

South Korea will begin distributing 10,000 high-performance Nvidia GPUs to startups, universities and research institutes from February, the government said Thursday, as it accelerates efforts to strengthen national AI competitiveness. The rollout is part of the government’s "K-Nvidia Initiative and AI Superhighway Project," backed by a 1.46 trillion won ($989 million) supplementary budget. The funding will be used to build a national-scale computing cluster designed to support training and depl