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

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

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NVIDIA, in collaboration with South Korea's Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology, held the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Entrepreneurship Partner Forum, announcing investments in South Korean startups Point2, Motif Technologies, RLWRLD, and Upstage. These companies focus on AI interconnectivity, foundational models, physical AI, and enterprise AI tools, representing AI full-stack technology.

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How the accounts differ:NVIDIA Newsroom mentions investment in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD, and Upstage; 36Kr only mentions investment in Point2 and plans for further investment in the others.

  1. NVIDIA Newsroom··First·Reading now

    NVIDIA announced its investment plan for South Korean startups at the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Entrepreneurship Partner Forum.

  2. 36Kr · AI··+40 min

    NVIDIA announced investment plans for multiple South Korean AI startups.

    Adds:Meetings with over 20 Korean AI startups.

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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 industrial robots to perform complex real-world tasks that require five-finger dexterity, such as precisely inserting components, threading nuts onto bolts and kitting parts from moving conveyors. 

Upstage, a Korean enterprise AI company, develops Solar language models and document AI tools that help businesses extract information from complex documents, streamline workflows and build AI applications for everyday operations.

The companies represent work across the full AI stack, from infrastructure to models to robotics applications.

The planned investments build on NVIDIA’s work with Korea’s startup and venture community, including more than 1,000 Korea-based members of NVIDIA Inception, a program that helps startups grow with access to preferred pricing, technical expertise and opportunities for investor introductions.

Source: NVIDIA Newsroom · blogs.nvidia.com