India, Nov. 2 -- SK Group said Friday that it is collaborating with Nvidia to build a large-scale artificial intelligence factory equipped with more than 50,000 of the US chipmaker's graphics processing units, according to Focus Taiwan.

Leveraging Nvidia's Omniverse a real-time 3D collaboration and simulation platform SK plans to establish a "manufacturing AI cloud" that will reinforce its competitiveness in the manufacturing sector while supporting the growth of related startup ecosystems.

The AI factory includes the manufacturing AI cloud and the AI data center project in Ulsan, forming an AI industrial cluster based on Nvidia GPUs. SK Group is advancing a hyperscale AI data center project in Ulsan targeting 100 megawatts by 2022 with...