NVIDIA backing Korea's sovereign AI bet with $1 billion while Brookfield commits up to $9 billion to triple the initial 55-megawatt facility to 200 megawatts by 2028, signaling massive infrastructure arms race as nations race to scale AI capacity.

SK Group and NVIDIA sealed a $500 billion-plus partnership spanning AI factories and memory supply, with SK Telecom building a 2-gigawatt facility coming online in 2027 while SK hynix locks in long-term HBM co-development to power NVIDIA's next-gen infrastructure push across Asia-Pacific.

NVIDIA is committing $300 million over five years to launch a joint AI research lab with South Korea's KAIST, putting down concrete infrastructure as it builds regional moats in the race for agentic AI dominance.

NVIDIA folded Omniverse libraries into its Agent Toolkit, letting AI agents build simulation-ready 3D worlds for robotics and autonomous systems. SideFX and PTC are already integrating the open tools, with RTX Spark systems shipping this fall.

Japan's government and industrial leaders are backing NVIDIA to build the world's first national AI infrastructure for physical AI, deploying 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 13,750 Vera CPUs to power robotics, manufacturing and real-world AI applications across Japanese industries.

NVIDIA is bringing edge-deployed robot reasoning to Japan's industrial giants with Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter vision model that runs locally on Jetson hardware—major robotics OEMs including FANUC, Yaskawa, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries are joining a coalition to commercialize physical AI at scale.