Odaily Planet Daily report: In the coming year, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology will invest 4.5217 trillion KRW to advance three key projects: physical AI, semiconductors, and data centers. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has allocated 3.7261 trillion KRW, while the Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology has allocated 795.6 billion KRW.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy will invest 762.8 billion KRW to drive AI transformation in manufacturing, focusing on data collection at production sites, development of foundational AI models, promotion of domestically produced humanoid robots, and building an ecosystem for key components and material equipment; an additional 1.5541 trillion KRW will be allocated to support semiconductors, and 43 billion KRW will be dedicated to AI data center technologies and talent development.
The Ministry of Science and ICT will invest 133.7 billion KRW in physical AI to develop a general-purpose physical AI foundation model and conduct logistics pilot projects with Korea Post; 135 billion KRW and 222.9 billion KRW will be allocated to semiconductors and data centers, respectively, including the construction of a 10-megawatt AI data center test platform. (ZDNet)