Naver Cloud and NVIDIA to Build Global AI Factory

Naver Cloud is pushing forward with a global artificial intelligence (AI) factory initiative in partnership with Nvidia.

On the 2nd, at the Nvidia Cloud Partner Summit held in Taipei, Taiwan, Kim Yuwon, CEO of Naver Cloud, is presenting the vision for the global AI factory. Naver Cloud.

Kim Yuwon, CEO of Naver Cloud, shared this direction at the Nvidia Cloud Partner Summit held in Taiwan on June 2.

Kim explained, "Naver Cloud possesses full-stack technological capabilities that cover the entire spectrum from AI infrastructure to services, making us a partner aligned with Nvidia’s AI factory platform strategy, which encompasses energy, chips, infrastructure, models, and applications."

The previous day, at Nvidia’s "GTC Taipei 2026" event in Taiwan, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, officially announced Naver Cloud as a core partner in the global AI ecosystem.

The two companies plan to collaborate across all AI domains, not only on infrastructure but also on AI models and physical AI. Naver Cloud will leverage Nvidia’s open large language model (LLM), Nemotron 3 Ultra, to further advance HyperCLOVA X. They will also jointly research optimization and foundational technologies for hyperscale language models. Since March, Naver Cloud has been utilizing Nvidia’s physical AI platform, COSMOS, to unveil and enhance the Seoul World Model, which replicates real-world data from Seoul.

The two companies also plan to disclose specific details of their collaboration, including the implementation plans for the global AI factory initiative, following a meeting in Korea between Naver Chairman Lee Haejin and Nvidia CEO Huang.

Kim stated, "Our collaboration with Nvidia goes beyond a simple supplier-customer relationship for graphics processing units (GPUs); it is a strategic decision to co-develop AI technologies and expand the global AI ecosystem. We aim to establish ourselves as a core supplier supporting the explosive AI demand in the Asian market and as a unique 'AI infrastructure hub.'"

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