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Okay, so NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang jets off to South Korea, makes a splashy announcement about "sovereign AI," and suddenly everyone's acting like this is some kind of altruistic endeavor? Give me a break. Let's be real: this ain't about helping South Korea; it's about NVIDIA planting its flag in the next big tech goldmine.
The press release is dripping with buzzwords: "AI industrial revolution," "agentic and physical AI," "national-scale deployment." Sounds impressive, right? But strip away the marketing fluff, and what do we have? South Korea is throwing a boatload of cash at NVIDIA GPUs. Samsung, SK Group, Hyundai – they're all lining up to build "AI factories" powered by NVIDIA tech.
And Huang's right there, basking in the glow, talking about building an "ecosystem." Ecosystem? That's code for "we're going to lock you in so tight, you won't even remember there are other options." AMD who?
They're throwing around numbers like 260,000 GPUs. That's not an investment; it's a full-scale invasion.
To distract from the corporate takeover, NVIDIA threw a "GeForce Gamer Festival" in Seoul. Esports, K-pop, and hands-on demos of unreleased games. Seriously? Do they really think a few shiny graphics and some catchy tunes will make us forget about the sheer scale of this power grab?
It's like trying to distract a starving dog with a squeaky toy when you're holding a steak.
I mean, offcourse it's good PR for NVIDIA and Jensen Huang. But the juxtaposition of this festival with the APEC summit and the sovereign AI announcement is just…tone-deaf.
The article boasts that Korea is "rewiring a nation's industrial base for intelligence." Okay, maybe. But who's holding the wires? NVIDIA. Who's controlling the flow of electricity? NVIDIA. Who's raking in the profits? You guessed it.
And what happens when South Korea inevitably becomes dependent on NVIDIA's tech? What happens when they can't innovate without Huang's say-so? Are we really supposed to believe this is a win-win situation? NVIDIA's official blog post, Korea Joins AI Industrial Revolution: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Unveils Historic Partnership at APEC Summit, details the scope of the partnership. They mention AI-RAN and 6G infrastructure, which sounds cool and futuristic. But let's not forget that this also means more data flowing through NVIDIA's systems, more opportunities for them to gather information and refine their algorithms. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of dominance.
But wait, maybe I'm just being cynical. Maybe Jensen Huang really does have South Korea's best interests at heart. Maybe he's not just a brilliant businessman but also a benevolent philanthropist. Then again, maybe pigs will fly.
