South Korea · Nvidia B200 · Wall Street · Nvidia · Decrypt
Each is readying a dedicated app while folding the AI into products people already tap
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The government will divide up to 512 of Nvidia's high-end B200 chips between the three groups and contribute toward running costs.
Key facts
- The European Commission launched InvestAI in February 2025 to mobilise $232 billion (€200 billion) across the bloc, including $23 billion (€20 billion) earmarked for vast compute sites meant to cut
- President Lee Jae Myung's administration has earmarked about $7.2 billion (10 trillion won) for AI spending in 2026, three times what it committed the previous year
- India approved its IndiaAI Mission in March 2024 with about $1.25 billion, and has since put tens of thousands of subsidised GPUs within reach of startups and researchers while funding 20 homegrown
- Operators must route at least half of all queries through their own certified Korean foundation model and another 30% through models built by other Korean firms, putting the domestic floor at 80%
Summary
South Korea plans to give its entire population free access to premium generative AI under a programme called "AI for All. Three tech consortia will provide the services, and the government will split up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips between them. Around two-thirds of South Koreans have tried AI and roughly 23 million use generative tools regularly. South Korea intends to hand every one of its citizens free access to generative AI, in what amounts to the first attempt by a national government to treat model access as something close to a public service, the Wall Street Journal reported. The tools will be wired into government systems, with the WSJ giving examples of potential use cases such as booking doctor's appointments, getting help finding an apartment or asking for tax advice.