NAVER announced a major expansion of its AI infrastructure through a partnership with NVIDIA, revealing plans to build AI factories powered by NVIDIA’s DSX platform. The initiative will begin with a 55-megawatt deployment at NAVER’s GAK Sejong data center in South Korea and is expected to scale to gigawatt-level capacity to meet growing global demand for AI services.
The expansion is designed to support sovereign AI initiatives, enterprise AI workloads, government applications, and large-scale AI cloud services. NAVER said the new infrastructure will enable organizations to move from AI experimentation to production-scale deployments, while providing trusted, high-performance AI services that comply with regional data sovereignty requirements.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, highlighted the growing demand for AI infrastructure and emphasized that NAVER’s AI factories will support developers, enterprises, and industries across Korea. He added that NVIDIA’s DSX platform is intended to help nations build sovereign intelligence infrastructure for applications ranging from AI agents to physical AI systems.
NAVER’s founder and chairman, Haejin Lee, said the company is building sovereign AI infrastructure capable of serving both Korean industries and global customers. He noted that the DSX platform will help customers transition from experimentation to large-scale AI production environments capable of powering models, agents, and real-world services.
The new cloud infrastructure will expand NAVER’s GAK Sejong Data Center, a hyperscale facility designed to support the company’s growing AI and cloud operations. The data center was built to accommodate high-density accelerated computing and includes automation, sustainability, and disaster-response capabilities aimed at supporting large-scale digital services.
NAVER also plans to leverage NVIDIA’s full-stack AI technologies to advance several strategic initiatives. These include the next generation of its HyperCLOVA X models, agentic AI services, and the development of a Seoul World Model based on proprietary urban street-view data and spatial modeling technology.
The infrastructure investment builds upon the companies’ existing collaboration in sovereign AI and physical AI. NAVER is enhancing its HyperCLOVA X family by fine-tuning NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra open model using proprietary datasets and training expertise. The company said the resulting models will offer stronger Korean-language capabilities while supporting sovereign AI deployments in regions including Europe and the Middle East.
NAVER also became the first Korean company to participate in the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition, contributing to open model development across pretraining, post-training, and reinforcement learning efforts. In addition, the company plans to launch an AI Agent Platform in Korea during the second half of the year using NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints.
The NVIDIA DSX platform combines hardware, software, facilities, and partner technologies into a unified AI factory architecture designed to reduce token costs and accelerate deployment timelines. NAVER will pair the platform with its experience operating large-scale GPU clusters and hyperscale data centers. The deployment will utilize NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS software to maximize token throughput per megawatt and NVIDIA DSX OS software for lifecycle management, resiliency, automation, and multi-tenant AI factory operations.
KEY QUOTES:
“Useful AI has arrived, and demand for AI factories is extraordinary. NAVER is building AI factory infrastructure that will serve its companies, developers and industries. With NVIDIA DSX, we can help Korea scale sovereign intelligence infrastructure for the agentic era, from AI agents to AI factories and physical AI.”
Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA
“NAVER is building sovereign AI infrastructure that can serve Korea’s industries and global customers with trusted, high-performance AI. By building on the NVIDIA DSX platform, we can help customers move from AI experimentation to production-scale AI factories that power models, agents and real-world services.”
Haejin Lee, Founder and Chairman, NAVER
