NVIDIA invests in Point2, plans investments in Motif, RLWRLD and Upstage in Korea
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-11-09
At the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX, held with Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, NVIDIA met 20+ Korean startups and announced an investment in Point2 with planned investments in three more:
- Point2 Technology: RF-based interconnects moving data between chips and racks as an alternative to copper/optical solutions for AI cluster scale-up;
- Motif Technologies: Seoul AI lab building foundation models for agents, including the open-weights LLM Motif-3;
- RLWRLD: physical AI startup (SF/Seoul/Tokyo) training robotics foundation models for five-finger dexterity like inserting components and threading nuts;
- Upstage: enterprise AI company behind Solar language models and document AI tools.
The moves build on NVIDIA Inception, which counts 1,000+ Korea-based members.
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