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• Korea keeps sovereign AI project, plans 4.7 trillion won frontier model fund

  South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said on October 5, 2026 that its sovereign AI foundation model contest will continue to a third round, while a new frontier AI development track and an industrial deployment track will be created. Officials proposed about 4.7 trillion won in mostly equity based public investment for the frontier program, focused on 10,000 Nvidia GPUs and training data, pending National Assembly approval.

  Source: Seoul Economic Daily2026-10-05T07:32:10.000Z

• Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance to protect open weight models

  On July 27, 2026 Nvidia announced the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new industry coalition to build and share open tools for securing AI software and agents. Founding members include Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat, Cisco, Hugging Face, SpaceXAI, SK Telecom and more than 30 other organizations, with a focus on open models and agent harnesses inspired by the recent OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident.

  Source: NVIDIA Blog2026-07-27T15:00:00.000Z

• Nvidia and SK Group unveil $500B AI factory and HBM pact

  On July 26, 2026, Chinese outlet IT之家 reported that South Korea’s SK Group and Nvidia have agreed a more than 500 billion dollar AI partnership, including a 2 gigawatt AI factory in Korea using Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform. The first AI factory is slated to go online in 2027, alongside a long‑term HBM memory collaboration with SK hynix.

  Source: IT之家 (IT Home)2026-07-26T11:49:37.000Z

• Samsung and SK sign $950B AI chip and data center deals

  On July 25, 2026, South Korea’s presidential Blue House detailed about $950 billion in AI chip and infrastructure cooperation over five years between Korean conglomerates and US tech firms. SK Group will pursue around $750 billion in advanced memory supply deals, while Samsung Electronics signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom worth up to $200 billion, alongside large AI data center and physical AI projects with Nvidia, Anthropic, NAVER, SK Telecom, Brookfield and Hyundai Motor Group.

  Source: Aju Press2026-07-25T06:20:00.000Z

• SK Telecom targets 15GW of AI data centers to export compute

  On June 29, 2026, SK Telecom said it plans to build 15GW of AI data-center capacity by 2035, a project it estimates at roughly 900 trillion won if fully built out. The company highlighted potential collaboration with partners like AWS and Nvidia and framed the buildout as a way for Korea to become an exporter of AI compute. ([v.daum.net](https://v.daum.net/v/20260629171202089))

  Source: Daum News / Dailian2026-06-29T08:12:00.000Z