Korea’s Trillion-Dollar Sovereign AI Investment: Nvidia Wins, Hynix Loses
Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung
Every day, businesses and governments around the world are becoming increasingly reliant on America’s frontier models. Startup CEOs already can’t imagine running their companies without AI, and it won’t be long until the same is true for every other organization in the world. At the same time, it’s become abundantly clear that access to frontier models is at the mercy of Anthropic, OpenAI, and the United States government. Fable 5 was temporarily banned by the USG, and GPT 5.6 and Astra were similarly delayed. Both models have cyber, bio, and other safety safeguards that, though…
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