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NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom Join Forces on Korea's Sovereign AI Infrastructure

OFFICIAL Written by GPN · Nov 9, 2026, 2:41 AM ET · NVIDIA · Tech

NVIDIA, Rebellions and SK Telecom have announced a collaboration to advance sovereign AI infrastructure in South Korea, built around NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion interconnect and MGX rack architecture.

Under the agreement, Rebellions will connect its next-generation Rebel R200 neural processing units to NVIDIA's open infrastructure platform, using NVLink Fusion for high-speed links inside the rack and the MGX design for rack-scale systems aimed at running large AI models efficiently.

SK Telecom plans to deploy the resulting systems in its AI data centre, pairing them with its own foundation models — including A.X K2 — and public services developed under the Korean government's "AI for All" project, as part of a full-stack sovereign AI strategy covering infrastructure, models and services.

The work is backed by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, which is supporting cooperation between NVIDIA and Korean chip companies, starting with Rebellions and SK Telecom, to strengthen the country's sovereign AI capabilities.

The partners also plan to split AI workloads across the hardware best suited to each stage, with NVIDIA GPUs handling the prefill stage of generating a response and Rebellions NPUs handling decoding, in a bid to improve inference speed and power efficiency.

Rebellions' R200 systems are expected to be ready for deployment in 2028.

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• NVIDIA Newsroom

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