NVIDIA AI Day Seoul Highlights Korea’s Advances in Sovereign, Agentic and Physical AI — Live Updates

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX.

Ryu Je-myung, vice minister of science and ICT, joined NVIDIA leaders to meet with over 20 Korean startups across foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors.

NVIDIA also announced an investment in Korean startup Point2, with additional investments planned in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage.

Tapping into the country’s strengths in manufacturing and engineering, NVIDIA is helping advance Korea’s physical AI ecosystem.

The country’s industry leaders are applying accelerated computing, AI and simulation to everything from semiconductor manufacturing to robotics and autonomous vehicles.

These efforts are helping bring physical AI from development into real-world production.

As AI agents take on more work, they need capable open models and security that advances alongside them.

Hyundai Motor Group is exploring NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints and the NVIDIA OpenShell runtime, while AIM Intelligence is integrating its Starfort platform with NVIDIA OpenShell to support secure AI agents for employee productivity and enterprise workflows.

A key component of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, OpenShell provides a secure runtime with sandboxed execution and policy-based controls to safeguard sensitive data, manage access to enterprise tools and govern autonomous agent actions.

NVIDIA and Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) are expanding their collaboration across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, from AI semiconductors and data center infrastructure to talent, startups, models, agents and security.

The collaboration lays the groundwork for Korean NPU and XPU companies to explore participation in the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem, and includes NVIDIA training and certification programs, hackathons and technical seminars to strengthen GPU utilization.

Through Korea’s AI for All initiative, NVIDIA will collaborate with three selected consortia and four leading Korean foundation model builders, using NVIDIA Dynamo software to optimize and scale AI inference.

NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models: A.X K2 from SK Telecom, K-EXAONE 2.0 from LG AI Research, Solar Open 2 from Upstage and Motif-3 from Motif Technologies.

As models grow beyond the capacity of a single GPU, they must be split across multiple GPUs, requiring careful coordination of request routing and communication to maintain performance.

NVIDIA Dynamo is an open source, distributed inference-serving framework built to deploy models in multi-node environments at data center scale. It handles this routing and communication to maximize inference performance.