SK Telecom partners with Lambda to upgrade AI data centre 

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The deal will support SK Telecom’s ambition to launch a GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) offerings across South Korea 

SK Telecom has this week announced a partnership with AI developer Lambda to expand cloud services in South Korea. 

In December, the two companies deploy NVIDIA GPU clusters in SK Telecom’s Gasan data center in Seoul, aiming to support AI cloud business opportunities around South Korea 

“SKT shares in our vision to make GPU compute as ubiquitous as electricity,” said Lambda CEO and co-founder, Stephen Balaban in a press release 

“Given the rapid pace of AI innovation happening in South Korea, we’re excited to partner with SKT in their mission to transform their company and country into a global AI powerhouse,” he continued. 

“Through our strategic partnership with Lambda, we are able to bolster SK Telecom’s leadership in AI services and capabilities while unlocking new business opportunities,” said Kim Kyeong-deog, Vice President and Head of Enterprise Business Division at SK Telecom. 

For SK Telecom, the partnership will help support the rollout and scaling of burgeoning AI cloud services, including GPUaaS.  

SK Telecom is a founding partner of the Global Telco AI Alliance, which was launched in June in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, e&, Singtel, and SoftBank. The five companies have agreed to develop Large Language Models (LLMs) that are specifically designed to meet telco needs, in areas such as improving customer interactions via digital assistants and chatbots. Each company will invest in the JV equally, “to support its initial working capital requirements to develop the Telco LLM”. 

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