From Authorities to Gaming, AI Is ‘Strengthening Korea’s Digital Basis,’ NVIDIA Chief Says at AI Day Seoul

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Following packed occasions in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis and Tokyo final month, the tour of NVIDIA AI Days — bringing collectively AI lovers, builders, researchers and startups in numerous pockets of the world — made its newest cease in Seoul, South Korea.

Final week, greater than 1,000 attendees joined NVIDIA AI Day Seoul to find out about sovereign AI — together with breakout classes on agentic and bodily AI, hands-on workshops and a startup reception for members of the NVIDIA Inception program, all providing insights into the present and future panorama of the AI ecosystem in Korea. 

Andy Lee, Inception program supervisor at NVIDIA, gave opening remarks on the Inception and Enterprise Capital reception, highlighting this yr’s Inception Grand Problem in Korea. 

5 of 100 Korean startups that utilized to the problem superior to the finals at AI Day Seoul, the place the successful crew obtained an award from the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. All 5 finalists had been acknowledged with certificates from NVIDIA for reflecting the momentum of Korea’s AI startup group.

“We had been thrilled to be named a finalist for the Inception Grand Problem, offering a possibility to share the profitable collaboration solid with the NVIDIA technical groups,” mentioned Jaeho Oh, CEO of NVIDIA Inception member PYLER. “The robust help from the Inception program enabled us to turn out to be the primary in South Korea to undertake an NVIDIA DGX B200 system, as we proceed to advance our globally main, secure and dependable video understanding AI.”

The most recent AI traits in Korea showcase how the know-how is driving developments throughout robotics, industrial manufacturing and authorities. 

Main Korean conglomerates like Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group and NAVER Cloud are engaged in deep AI integration.

“Within the public sector, AI is already serving to course of paperwork, insurance policies and regulatory data at scale, enabling residents to obtain the solutions they want immediately,” mentioned Shilpa Kolhatkar, world head of AI nations at NVIDIA. “Adoption can be accelerating throughout AI avatars, speech recognition applied sciences, gaming, music and the Okay-pop trade — improvements that collectively are strengthening Korea’s digital basis.”

The numbers assist showcase Korea’s increasing AI ecosystem:

Along with 4 NVIDIA Deep Studying Institute coaching classes, the occasion featured breakout classes by matter. And on the NVIDIA Inception reception, Korean AI startups and enterprise capital companies got here collectively to attach and collaborate.

At an “Ask the NVIDIA Tech Specialists” space, specialists from throughout AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, giant language fashions (LLMs), robotics and automotive linked with Korean builders for Q&As about real-world technological challenges and options.

“The very best a part of AI Day Seoul was positively coming to the Q&A counter to immediately ask questions and talk with NVIDIA technical specialists,” mentioned Useong Kim, principal engineer at Samsung Electronics. “It’s invaluable to ask what you’re interested in and get quick suggestions. I strongly felt the worth of in-person communication past simply absorbing on-line data, and I obtained quite a lot of sensible assist.”

Ankit Patel, senior director of developer advertising at NVIDIA, offered an all-conference session that explored agentic AI by means of the lens of scaling legal guidelines. He emphasised that reasoning fashions — the muse of clever decision-making — are on the coronary heart of the most recent technology of AI.

Along with Patel’s discuss, all-conference plenary classes featured Marc Hamilton, vp of worldwide options structure and engineering at NVIDIA, who mentioned how AI factories are converging with bodily AI.

And Kolhatkar shared how Korea is constructing sovereign AI fashions and fashionable AI factories tailor-made to nationwide priorities by means of authorities initiatives and world partnerships.

Korea-based NVIDIA companions are serving to gas the subsequent industrial revolution pushed by AI. 

“To construct technological sovereignty and a sustainable AI basis for the period of sovereign AI, NAVER Cloud is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA — from GPU infrastructure to AI fashions and agent applied sciences,” mentioned Yong-Jae Kwak, chief know-how officer at NAVER Cloud, at AI Day Seoul.

On the occasion:

• NAVER Cloud offered on its growth of an agentic AI system, detailing the method of deriving optimization insights utilizing the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit.
• LG AI Analysis showcased superior LLM coaching utilizing the NVIDIA NeMo framework, tapping into FP8 coaching recipes to attain over 20% quicker coaching and making use of reasoning-aligned methods to boost reasoning efficiency to achieve new ranges of coaching effectivity. 
• Coupang Clever Cloud mentioned how it’s constructing Coupang’s AI manufacturing facility — constructed with NVIDIA DGX programs based mostly on the NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell architectures — which can ship AI-powered options for demand forecasting, logistics route optimization, advert personalization and extra.

Introduced on the APEC Summit final month, Korean builders throughout enterprises, startups and analysis institutes will quickly be outfitted to harness the facility of 260,000 GPUs with NVIDIA’s full stack of accelerated libraries and software program growth kits.

“NVIDIA AI Day was a significant alternative for Korean corporations and startups to see cutting-edge AI applied sciences up shut and discover new prospects for collaboration,” mentioned Kyungwon Cho, director of the Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups. “The 260,000-GPU AI infrastructure introduced on the latest APEC Summit will play a serious position in advancing the subsequent section of Korea’s AI ecosystem. We anticipate this to assist startups transfer quicker in creating their applied sciences and spark new waves of innovation throughout industries. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups will proceed working with NVIDIA to create much more alternatives for Korean startups to develop and compete globally.”

Subsequent up: Be part of NVIDIA AI Day Sao Paulo, working in January, to find the most recent AI breakthroughs, join with friends and specialists, and extra.

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