Nvidia, Rebellions, SK Telecom to advance sovereign AI infrastructure
Supported by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), the collaboration aims to support AI services tailored to Korea’s language, industries and priorities, connecting Korean semiconductor development with the systems and operational capabilities needed to deliver AI at scale
Nvidia, Rebellions and SK Telecom have announced a collaboration to advance Korea’s sovereign AI infrastructure — using Nvidia NVLink Fusion to bring together NVIDIA’s open infrastructure platform, Rebellions’ Korean-designed AI processors and SK Telecom’s AI data center, model and service capabilities.
As part of the agreement, Rebellions will use NVLink Fusion to connect its Rebel R200 neural processing units (NPUs) to the Nvidia platform, and harness the Nvidia MGX rack architecture for rack-scale system development. SK Telecom plans to deploy these systems, drawing on its AI data center operations expertise, proprietary models and services, Nvidia said in a press release.
Supported by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), the collaboration aims to support AI services tailored to Korea’s language, industries and priorities, connecting Korean semiconductor development with the systems and operational capabilities needed to deliver AI at scale.
“With NVLink Fusion, Korea’s chipmakers can connect their custom ASICs to Nvidia’s AI factory platform, tightly coupling their processors with NVIDIA compute to run AI workloads,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia. “Together with MSIT, Rebellions and SK Telecom, we’re building the computing foundation for Korea to produce its own intelligence and power its next industrial revolution.”
“By integrating Rebellions’ purpose-built silicon and system design with Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion, high-speed interconnects and rack-scale design expertise, and SKT’s model and data center operations capabilities, we will deliver low-latency and energy-efficient inference for frontier models at scale,” said Sunghyun Park, cofounder and CEO of Rebellions.
NVLink Fusion extends Nvidia’s vertically integrated, horizontally open AI platform to custom XPUs. It enables chipmakers to combine specialized silicon with Nvidia’s high-bandwidth, low-latency scale-up networking and established infrastructure ecosystem, helping improve performance, reduce deployment risk and accelerate time to market, the press release said.
“By linking SKT’s AI data centers, proprietary AI models including A.X K2, and public-facing AI services developed under the ‘AI for All’ project, we will strengthen our full-stack sovereign AI competitiveness and contribute to the growth of Korea’s AI ecosystem,” said Jung Jai-hun, president and CEO of SK Telecom.
Bae Kyung-hoon, Korea Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technologies, said the government would actively support this collaboration to deliver tangible results and further advance cooperation with Nvidia across a range of areas, including physical AI and securing GPU supply.
