NVIDIA and Hyundai to Build $3B AI Factory in Korea, Focused on Inference Technology

NVIDIA and Hyundai Motor signed an agreement in October 2025 to jointly build a $3 billion artificial intelligence factory in South Korea. The facility will be equipped with 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and primarily support the research and application of AI inference-layer technologies. The project is currently progressing steadily. In March this year, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that autonomous driving has reached its “ChatGPT moment,” emphasizing that the future of embodied AI lies in moving beyond pre-programmed automation toward general-purpose control systems based on reasoning. This collaboration, focused on enhancing inference capabilities, is seen as a pivotal strategic move by NVIDIA to drive its next phase of growth following the completion of the model training stage.