Hyundai Motor Group commits 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI factory; $3B physical AI investment in Korea

<cite index="31-3,35-3">Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA announced they will co-develop AI capabilities for mobility solutions, next-generation smart factories, and on-device semiconductor advancements, with 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs powering integrated AI model training, validation, and deployment. The initiative represents an approximately $3 billion investment to advance the physical AI landscape in Korea.</cite> The collaboration shifts both companies from strategic adoption of existing platforms to joint innovation of core physical AI technologies.

<cite index="32-2">Hyundai will build an NVIDIA AI supercomputer to accelerate model training, validation, and deployment for in-vehicle AI, autonomous driving, smart factories, and robotics. The Group is leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos on RTX PRO Servers to develop car factory digital twins and robots, and using NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NeMo software to speed proprietary LLM development.</cite>

<cite index="32-3,32-4">In support of the Korean government's initiative to build a national physical AI cluster, Hyundai and NVIDIA will collaborate to establish an AI Application Center and AI Technology Center while nurturing local AI talent. This inaugural step in public-private collaboration marks a significant effort to combine Korea's rich manufacturing data with NVIDIA's cutting-edge AI infrastructure to accelerate innovative AI transformation in manufacturing.</cite>