Hyundai and NVIDIA Announce AI Factory with 50,000 Blackwell GPUs for Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Factories
Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA are deepening their collaboration to build a new AI factory powered by 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, aiming to accelerate innovation in autonomous vehicles, smart factories, and robotics.
- 50,000
- $3 billion
What Happened
Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA have announced a deepening collaboration to build an AI factory powered by 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. The partnership includes a $3 billion investment to establish a Physical AI Application Center, an NVIDIA AI Technology Center, and physical AI data centers in Korea, supporting the government's national physical AI cluster initiative.
50,000
to power the AI factory for training and deploying AI models for mobility and robotics
“AI will revolutionize every facet of every industry. In transportation alone — from vehicle design and manufacturing to robotics and autonomous driving — NVIDIA’s AI and computing platforms are transforming how the world moves. Together with Hyundai Motor Group — Korea’s industrial powerhouse and one of the world’s top mobility solutions providers— we’re building intelligent cars and factories tha”
Why this matters
This partnership aims to create an integrated AI ecosystem for mobility and manufacturing, potentially making vehicles smarter and factories more efficient, while also supporting Korea's national AI cluster initiative.
Terms in This Story
- Physical AI
- AI that interacts with the physical world, such as robots and autonomous vehicles.
- Blackwell
- NVIDIA's next-generation GPU architecture designed for AI and high-performance computing.
- Digital twin
- A virtual replica of a physical system used for simulation and analysis.
- Omniverse
- NVIDIA's platform for building and operating metaverse applications, enabling real-time 3D simulation and collaboration.
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