South Korea selected a Naver Cloud consortium and will provide 256 NVIDIA B200 GPUs for cybersecurity-model development over 10 months.

South Korea selected a consortium led by Naver Cloud to develop an AI foundation model specialized for cybersecurity. The selection was disclosed by South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology.

Beginning in September, the government will provide the consortium with 256 NVIDIA B200 graphics processing units. The allocation has a 10-month usage period.

South Korea planned to sign an agreement with the consortium during September and then begin model research and development. The selection criteria included technical capability, development experience, project planning, feasibility, market potential and expected impact.

The disclosed resource is a specific count of GPU accelerators, not 256 servers or racks. The source does not provide cluster power, networking, storage or total project-cost figures.