Tag: South Korea
Sarvam AI Startup Programme Fuels Indic AI Builders
Sarvam AI has introduced the Sarvam Startup Programme, providing early-stage companies with up to 12 months of API credits, priority engineering support and production-ready infrastructure to build multilingual AI applications without backend complexities. Founders Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar positioned the initiative to empower India’s developer ecosystem with high-quality models fluent in 22+ Indian languages and English, enabling full agency in creating voice agents,...
Oracle Layoffs Fund AI Data Centre Push Amid Cash Squeeze
Oracle is planning thousands of job cuts across divisions as it grapples with a cash crunch from aggressive AI data centre buildout to support major clients including a $300 billion OpenAI agreement, xAI and Meta, as Bloomberg News first reported. The reductions, potentially broader than typical rolling cuts, may begin this month and target roles expected to diminish under AI automation, coinciding with an...
NVIDIA and South Korea Partner to Build 260,000-GPU AI Infrastructure
Global chipmaker NVIDIA has announced a large-scale partnership with the Government of South Korea to build one of the world’s most advanced national AI...
Server Fire Disrupts 647 South Korean Services
A fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service (NIRS) data center in Daejeon has triggered a massive digital service outage across the country,...
South Korea Boosts Chip Support to $23 Billion
South Korea on Tuesday announced a substantial increase in its support package for the domestic semiconductor industry, raising the total to 33 trillion won...