NAVER Cloud announced on June 2 that it is partnering with NVIDIA to launch a global AI factory initiative, following its participation in NVIDIA's 'GTC Taipei 2026' and 'Cloud Partner Summit' held in Taiwan.

With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially naming NAVER Cloud a key partner in the global AI ecosystem, the two companies will engage in comprehensive technical collaboration, ranging from infrastructure to the advancement of HyperCLOVA X using NVIDIA's open-source large language model (LLM) technology, Nemotron 3 Ultra. This partnership goes beyond simple hardware procurement, aiming to optimize inference for massive AI models and ensure stable infrastructure operations, which is expected to lay the foundation for next-generation network environments capable of processing vast amounts of data.

NAVER Cloud Partners with NVIDIA to Usher in the 'Global AI Factory' Era

NAVER Cloud has formed a comprehensive alliance with NVIDIA, the global leader in graphics processing units (GPUs) and AI, covering infrastructure, models, and services.

NAVER Cloud CEO Kim Yu-won attended the 'NVIDIA Cloud Partner Summit (NCP Summit)' in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2 to share the company's global AI factory vision and future business direction. Prior to this, at the 'GTC Taipei 2026' keynote on June 1, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang personally introduced NAVER Cloud as a major AI-native cloud partner, certifying it as a core pillar of the global AI ecosystem.

The core of this partnership is the integration of both companies' full-stack technical capabilities. Building on its experience in operating large-scale infrastructure and proprietary hyperscale AI models, NAVER Cloud plans to collaborate as a partner that perfectly aligns with NVIDIA's accelerated computing integrated platform strategy.

The technical collaboration focuses on AI model optimization and large-scale data processing capabilities. First, NAVER Cloud will use NVIDIA's open-source LLM, 'Nemotron 3 Ultra,' to advance its own generative AI, 'HyperCLOVA X,' while jointly researching optimization and core technologies for hyperscale language models.

Optimization Research Based on 'Nemotron 3 Ultra' and 'Cosmos'

The technical collaboration focuses on AI model optimization and large-scale data processing capabilities. First, NAVER Cloud will use NVIDIA's open-source LLM, Nemotron 3 Ultra, to advance its own generative AI, 'HyperCLOVA X,' while jointly researching optimization and core technologies for hyperscale language models.

Last March, NAVER Cloud announced it was enhancing the performance of its 'Seoul World Model' by using NVIDIA's physical AI platform, 'Cosmos,' to train on 1.2 million panoramic images collected across Seoul. The model gained attention for accurately recreating Korea's real-world road environments and spatial structures using this extensive dataset.

Aiming to Become a Unique 'AI Infrastructure Hub' in the Inference-Driven AI Factory Era

"The paradigm of the AI industry is shifting from model-centric to an inference-driven AI factory era that relies on stable, large-scale infrastructure operations," said CEO Kim. "As companies across infrastructure, models, and services accelerate their expansion and cross-sector integration, NAVER Cloud, having operated every layer of the AI ecosystem, is best positioned to respond proactively to this rapidly changing competitive landscape."

"Our collaboration with NVIDIA is more than just a relationship between a GPU supplier and a customer; it is a strategic decision to co-develop AI technology and expand the global AI ecosystem," CEO Kim added. "We aim to become a key supplier supporting the explosive demand for AI in the Asian market and establish ourselves as a unique 'AI infrastructure hub.'"

In response, Raj Mirpuri, Vice President of Global AI Cloud & Infrastructure at NVIDIA, stated, "For an AI factory to function properly, it must be supported by an ecosystem where accelerated computing, models, data, applications, and cloud services are organically connected. Through our partnership with NAVER Cloud, we will support customers in Asia and around the world in utilizing NVIDIA's integrated AI platform to build sovereign AI, industrial AI, and enterprise AI."

Meanwhile, NAVER Cloud stated that NAVER Chairman Lee Hae-jin and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang are scheduled to meet in Korea soon, where they plan to disclose more specific details regarding the execution plan for the global AI factory project.