Seoul, Oct 31 (NationPress) Hyundai Motor, the foremost automotive manufacturer in South Korea, announced on Friday its plans to enhance its partnership with Nvidia Corp. to boost innovation in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven future mobility solutions. This initiative will utilize a new AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest Blackwell chips.

The two firms are set to collaborate on developing AI functionalities for mobility solutions, next-generation smart factories, and on-device semiconductor technologies aimed at improving the competitive edge of the Hyundai Motor Group, as per a press release.

As part of this collaboration, they will work together to develop, validate, and implement integrated AI models utilizing 50,000 Nvidia Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs), according to reports from Yonhap news agency.

"Entering a new era of AI-driven mobility and smart factories signifies a crucial advancement in our collaboration with Nvidia," stated Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung. "We are not only creating advanced technologies but also establishing a strong AI ecosystem in Korea."

This announcement follows Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's earlier disclosure that the company will provide up to 260,000 Blackwell GPUs to develop AI data centers in collaboration with South Korean partners including Samsung Electronics Co. and Naver Cloud Corp., alongside the Seoul government.

AI is set to transform every industry sector. In the realm of transportation—encompassing vehicle design, manufacturing, robotics, and autonomous driving—Nvidia's AI and computing platforms are reshaping global mobility, Huang remarked, according to Hyundai Motor.

"Partnering with Hyundai Motor Group, we are crafting intelligent vehicles and factories that will redefine the multi-trillion-dollar mobility market," the Nvidia leader stated.

Through its Blackwell-enhanced AI factory and computing framework, Hyundai aims to unify in-vehicle AI, autonomous driving, factory automation, and robotics into a cohesive, intelligent ecosystem, the company reported.

For instance, Hyundai intends to leverage the Nvidia Omniverse Enterprise platform to create advanced factory digital twins—virtual models of manufacturing settings that integrate and oversee factory data—while enabling precise control, software and hardware validation, discrete event simulation, and virtual commissioning, the press release noted.

Nvidia's AI models could also facilitate over-the-air updates for capabilities and features in Hyundai vehicles, it added.

Additionally, both companies have signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the South Korean government to invest in a national initiative for constructing a physical AI cluster, which is projected to cost around $3 billion, according to Hyundai.