- NAVER and NVIDIA have partnered to expand sovereign AI infrastructure and AI factory capacity
- The collaboration will support large-scale AI services, model development and enterprise deployments
- The initiative strengthens NAVER’s ambitions to deliver AI capabilities tailored to regional data sovereignty requirements
NAVER has entered a new artificial intelligence infrastructure initiative with NVIDIA to scale sovereign AI capabilities and meet growing demand for enterprise, government and industrial AI applications.
Under the partnership, NAVER will deploy AI factories built on the NVIDIA DSX platform, beginning with a 55-megawatt expansion of the company’s GAK Sejong hyperscale data center in South Korea, NVIDIA said Sunday. The initiative is designed to support large-scale AI training, inference and agentic AI workloads, with long-term plans to scale infrastructure to gigawatt levels.
What Will NAVER Build?
According to the companies, the new infrastructure will support NAVER’s efforts to provide AI cloud services for enterprises, government agencies and industry customers while addressing data sovereignty and regulatory requirements.
The DSX platform combines NVIDIA’s accelerated computing technologies, software and AI infrastructure management tools to support large-scale AI deployments.
“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,” said Haejin Lee, founder and chairman of NAVER.
How Does the Initiative Support Sovereign AI?
NAVER plans to use the infrastructure to advance its proprietary HyperCLOVA X family of large language models and other sovereign AI initiatives. HyperCLOVA X models are based on NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra, which NAVER is fine-tuning with its data and training capabilities to deliver a culturally fluent model tailored for both Korean and global enterprise environments.
The company also plans to launch an AI agent platform, powered by NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints, in South Korea later this year and is developing a Seoul World Model using proprietary spatial and street-view data.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said demand for AI infrastructure continues to accelerate as organizations move AI workloads into production environments.
“Useful AI has arrived, and demand for AI factories is extraordinary,” Huang said. “NAVER is building AI factory infrastructure that will serve its companies, developers and industries.”
What Does the Expansion Mean for NAVER?
The announcement reflects NAVER’s broader strategy to strengthen its position in the AI infrastructure market and support sovereign AI deployments beyond South Korea.
NAVER is pursuing opportunities to serve customers in Europe and the Middle East that require secure AI services aligned with local data sovereignty requirements. By combining its cloud, data center and AI model development capabilities with NVIDIA technology, NAVER aims to expand its role as a provider of large-scale AI infrastructure and services.
