The South Korean cloud unit said on Tuesday it would broaden the partnership into a strategic technology alliance spanning AI infrastructure, models, services and physical AI, moving well beyond a conventional buyer-supplier arrangement.
Naver Cloud Chief Executive Kim Yu-won outlined the plan at Nvidia's cloud partner summit in Taiwan, where he positioned the company as a full-stack player covering everything from infrastructure to applications.
"Our partnership with Nvidia goes beyond a simple GPU supplier-and-customer relationship," Kim said. "It is a strategic decision to develop AI technology together and expand the global AI ecosystem."
Under the deal, Naver Cloud will draw on Nvidia's open Nemotron 3 large language model to sharpen its own HyperCLOVA X model, while the two firms jointly research model optimization and core technologies. They also plan to help governments and local companies build sovereign AI models tailored to individual markets.
The tie-up surfaces ahead of a meeting in South Korea between senior Naver and Nvidia executives, at which the companies are expected to disclose a concrete execution plan for the AI factory venture.
Raj Mirpuri, vice president for Nvidia's global AI cloud and infrastructure, said the collaboration would let customers across Asia and beyond tap the chipmaker's integrated platform to build sovereign, industrial and enterprise AI.
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