NVIDIA Announces New Planned Investments in Korean Startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT -NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX.

Ryu Je-myung, vice minister of science and ICT, joined NVIDIA leaders to meet with over 20 Korean startups across foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors.

NVIDIA also announced an investment in Korean startup Point2, with additional investments planned in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage.

Point2 Technology, an AI interconnect company, builds scalable, radio frequency-based interconnects that move data between chips and racks in AI factories, offering an innovative alternative to conventional copper and optical interconnect solutions for AI cluster scale-up, delivering the reach, performance and efficiency needed for next-generation AI infrastructure.

Motif Technologies, a Seoul-based AI lab, develops foundation models for building AI agents that carry out complex tasks, including Motif-3, a large language model released with open weights.

RLWRLD, a physical AI startup based in San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo, develops robotics foundation models that enable humanoid and …