Hyundai, NVIDIA Partner on $3B AI Factory for Mobility and Robotics

• Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA will build an AI factory using 50,000 Blackwell GPUs for smart vehicles, robotics, and manufacturing.
• The $3 billion investment is a joint effort with the Korean government to build AI centers, infrastructure, and workforce programs for physical AI.

Hyundai Motor Group and NVIDIA are building a new AI factory powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. The project is part of a $3 billion joint effort with the Korean government to develop Korea’s physical AI industry. It includes setting up an AI Application Center, an NVIDIA AI Technology Center, and multiple AI data centers, with a Memorandum of Understanding signed by all parties on October 31.

The AI factory will train, validate, and deploy models for autonomous driving, in-vehicle systems, factory automation, and robotics. Hyundai will use NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor, Omniverse, and NeMo platforms, along with RTX PRO Servers, to build digital twins of factories and driving environments, test software, and deliver real-time AI features in vehicles.

This builds on earlier announcements, including Hyundai’s use of NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos to create digital factory twins and test robotics with NVIDIA Isaac Sim. The companies are moving from adopting NVIDIA platforms to co-developing core AI infrastructure that ties together vehicles and manufacturing systems into one intelligent network.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Korea is backing physical AI in a big way, and Hyundai and NVIDIA are turning that support into real infrastructure for smarter vehicles, better factories, and faster development across both.

Source: Hyundai Motor Group