South Korea’s sovereign AI infrastructure will add an initial 55 megawatts of capacity under an NVIDIA–NAVER plan to use the NVIDIA DSX platform to design, build and scale full-stack AI platforms for enterprise, industry and government users. The companies are targeting longer-term expansion to gigawatt scale.
“Useful AI has arrived, and demand for AI factories is extraordinary,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “NAVER is building AI factory infrastructure that will serve its companies, developers and industries. With NVIDIA DSX, we can help Korea scale sovereign intelligence infrastructure for the agentic era – from AI agents to AI factories and physical AI.”
“NAVER is building sovereign AI infrastructure that can serve Korea’s industries and global customers with trusted, high-performance AI,” said Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER. “By building on the NVIDIA DSX platform, we can help customers move from AI experimentation to production-scale AI factories that power models, agents and real-world services.”
NAVER’s facilities will use the NVIDIA DSX platform and NVIDIA accelerated computing to provide AI infrastructure for enterprises, manufacturers, government organizations and AI cloud customers in Korea.
NAVER Expands GAK Sejong Capacity
The DSX-powered cloud will expand GAK Sejong data center, which supports NAVER’s AI and cloud services.
GAK Sejong uses automation, sustainability features and disaster response capabilities to support energy-efficient operations. The facility is part of NAVER’s infrastructure for digital services in South Korea.
NAVER is also addressing sovereign AI demand through infrastructure in Europe and the Middle East. By combining hyperscale data center operations with NVIDIA DSX, NAVER plans to provide government and private customers with digital services aligned with regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.
Model Work Supports AI Cloud
NAVER is advancing its HyperCLOVA X models by fine-tuning the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra model with data and training expertise. The work is intended to produce a model for Korean and global enterprise customers. HyperCLOVA X models based on NVIDIA Nemotron also provide a platform for sovereign AI initiatives in Europe and the Middle East.
NAVER is the first Korean company to participate in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training and reinforcement learning. It plans to launch an AI Agent Platform in Korea in the second half of the year, powered by NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints.
NAVER is also developing a Seoul World Model using urban street-view data and spatial modeling technology, building on NVIDIA Cosmos foundation models.
NVIDIA DSX Platform Underpins NAVER Expansion
The NVIDIA DSX platform is codesigned stack for AI factories, covering chips, systems, software, facilities and technologies. The platform is intended to reduce token cost and shorten time to first production. The platform will be paired with NAVER’s experience building and operating GPU clusters and hyperscale data centers.
NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS software is designed to lower token cost by increasing token throughput per megawatt. NVIDIA DSX OS provides an operating layer for lifecycle management, runtime operations, health automation, resiliency and multi-tenant AI factory management using open-source, modular software.
Source: NVIDIA
About NAVER
NAVER is a South Korean technology company that operates search, commerce, content, financial and cloud services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in South Korea. It runs the Naver search portal, mobile apps, email, news, maps, blogs, online communities and advertising products. It also provides shopping, payments, cloud services, webcomics, translation tools, AI tools and business software. Its customers include consumers, advertisers, merchants, publishers, developers, financial service users, companies and public-sector organizations. NAVER serves retail, media, advertising, payments, software, entertainment, education and data center markets. Its subsidiaries include NAVER Cloud, NAVER Webtoon, NAVER Financial, NAVER Labs and Snow. The company also develops search, language, robotics, mapping and location technologies. NAVER has about 5,000 employess worldwide.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.