A video personally prepared by Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang to express gratitude to Korea is drawing attention. The company said on the 3rd that the Korean narration overlaid on the video was generated through artificial intelligence (AI) based on Huang's actual voice. Nvidia said the piece was produced to convey Huang's gratitude to Korea and to celebrate Korea's leap forward as a partner to open the AI era together.
As of the day, the 3-minute, 16-second video titled "Korea's next industrial revolution," released on Nvidia's official YouTube account, surpassed 510,000 views. The video was released on Oct. 31, when Nvidia announced that it would supply a total of 260,000 latest Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) to the Korean government and four domestic corporations.
In the video, Nvidia shows scenes from the industrialization era in black and white and said, "Republic of Korea, the nation that achieved the Miracle on the Han. Through your determination and sacrifice, you went beyond mere reconstruction to achieve the fastest industrialization in history." It also noted, "From small workshops to large-scale factories, you built today's Korea. Through steel, semiconductors, electronics, shipbuilding, automobiles, and technology, you brought Korea's name to households around the world."
It continued, "And a single spark was ignited. It was StarCraft," pointing out that Korea, by creating PC bang culture in the 1990s, now leads global esports. "A new arena called PC bang was born, and Nvidia GeForce (GPU) became the gear for a new generation of players," it said.
Nvidia also said, "The world has fallen for K-pop, K-dramas, K-beauty, and K-style, and the rising generation is reaching higher toward Korea's golden age," adding, "With a new kind of AI factory powered by Nvidia GPUs, the AI revolution has arrived. Korea, following semiconductors, is now building AI infrastructure." It went on, "From Samsung, Hyundai, and SK to Naver and LG, with Digital Twin, smart robots, and smart factories, Korea is creating a new future." The video ends with the line, "We are honored to be able to work with Korea. Here in Korea, where the miracle continues."
Nvidia formed an AI partnership with Korea on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. In a press release the same day, the company said the partnership Huang released at the APEC CEO Summit is "unprecedented in scale and vision."
The government is pursuing a project to introduce up to 50,000 of the latest Nvidia GPUs through major domestic cloud providers, including NHN Cloud, Kakao, and Naver Cloud. About 13,000 Nvidia Blackwells will be introduced initially, with plans to expand the scale later. Nvidia's customized Generative AI build platform Nemo and the dataset-open Nvidia "Nemotron" will also be used in the government's independent AI foundation model project. Nvidia said this is "not simply about introducing GPUs, but about intelligently reorganizing the national industrial base."