Nvidia shared at the APEC summit that it will expand South Korea's AI infrastructure with over a quarter-million Nvidia GPUs across its sovereign clouds and AI factories. South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) plans to deploy up to 50,000 of the latest Nvidia GPUs.

Since generative artificial intelligence began to make headlines in 2022, investors have poured money into Nvidia Corp., convinced that its leading position in AI hardware will deliver riches.

Nvidia on Monday announced a $100 billion investment in OpenAI as the two firms partner up on a huge AI infrastructure push. Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, told CNBC that the deal includes at least 10 gigawatts worth of data centers — enough to ...