NAVER Cloud Joins Forces with NVIDIA to Become a “Global AI Factory,” Building Full-Stack Alliance Across Infrastructure, Models and Services
NAVER Cloud Joins Forces with NVIDIA to Become a “Global AI Factory,” Building Full-Stack Alliance Across Infrastructure, Models and Services
NAVER Cloud Joins Forces with NVIDIA to Become a “Global AI Factory,” Building Full-Stack Alliance Across Infrastructure, Models and Services
- NAVER Cloud CEO Kim Yu-won shares company’s strategic direction at the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Summit
- NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang names NAVER Cloud a key partner in global AI infrastructure
- Further details to be unveiled in Korea at upcoming meeting between Lee Haejin, Founder & Global Investment Officer, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
June 2, 2026
[Photo] Kim Yu-won, CEO of NAVER Cloud, presents the company’s global AI factory vision at the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Summit in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 2.
NAVER Cloud, led by CEO Kim Yu-won, is moving forward with NVIDIA to build global AI factories. Drawing on full-stack AI capabilities that span infrastructure, models and services, the two companies aim to strengthen their leadership in an increasingly competitive AI infrastructure market.
Kim outlined the direction at the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Summit (NCP Summit), held in Taiwan on June 2. Explaining the rationale behind the partnership, Kim said, “With robust full-stack technology capabilities spanning the entire AI value chain, from infrastructure to services, NAVER Cloud is an ideal partner for NVIDIA’s AI factory platform strategy, which covers energy, chips, infrastructure, models and applications.”
The announcement follows NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026, held in Taiwan on June 1, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially named NAVER Cloud a key partner in the global AI ecosystem during his keynote address.
[Photo] NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces NAVER Cloud as a key AI-native cloud partner at NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan, on June 1.
The partnership will center on close technical collaboration across the full AI stack, from infrastructure and AI models to physical AI. NAVER Cloud will use NVIDIA’s open large language model, Nemotron 3 Ultra, to further advance HyperCLOVA X. The two companies also plan to jointly research optimization and core technologies for hyperscale language models.
NAVER Cloud unveiled the Seoul World Model in March, using NVIDIA Cosmos, NVIDIA’s physical AI platform, to recreate real-world data from Seoul, and has been enhancing the model’s performance. Built on Korean map data and trained on 1.2 million panoramic images collected across Seoul, the model drew attention for its recreation of Korea’s actual road environments and spatial structures.
NAVER Cloud is positioning its proprietary full-stack technology and dedicated cloud capabilities as key differentiators. Its strategy is to provide AI environments tailored to customers’ diverse workloads and requirements, while supporting the development of regionally optimized sovereign AI models through close partnerships with governments and local companies around the world.
The two companies plan to announce more specific details of their collaboration, including execution plans for the global AI factory business, at an upcoming meeting in Korea between Lee Haejin, Founder & Global Investment Officer, and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
“The AI industry is moving beyond a model-centric paradigm and entering an inference-centric AI factory era, where large-scale infrastructure must be operated reliably,” said Kim Yu-won, CEO of NAVER Cloud. “As infrastructure, model and service companies accelerate expansion across domains and integration between them, NAVER Cloud is best positioned to respond ahead of the curve in this rapidly changing competitive environment, having directly operated every layer of the AI ecosystem.”
Kim added, “Our collaboration with NVIDIA goes beyond a simple GPU supplier-customer relationship. It is a strategic decision to develop AI technologies together and expand the global AI ecosystem. Going forward, NAVER Cloud aims to become a core provider supporting Asia’s explosive AI demand and establish itself as a distinctive AI infrastructure hub.”
Raj Mirpuri, Vice President of Global AI Cloud & Infrastructure at NVIDIA, said, “For AI factories to operate effectively, they need an ecosystem in which accelerated computing, models, data, applications and cloud services are seamlessly connected. Through our collaboration with NAVER Cloud, we will help customers across Asia and around the world make broad use of NVIDIA’s integrated AI platform as they build sovereign AI, industrial AI, and enterprise AI.”
