Overview
- Applications are open through Jan. 28, with projects eligible for up to 256 H200 GPUs or 128 B200 GPUs for one year.
- The government secured 52,000 GPUs through 2030 and set aside 6,120 B200 units for the National AI Foundation Model Project.
- Universities and public research institutes receive access at no cost, while startups and SMEs pay about 5–10% of market price with an extra 50% discount for youth‑led startups.
- The strategy advances a K‑NPU software ecosystem to reduce reliance on CUDA and targets domestic NPU‑based AI servers with more than twice the power efficiency of foreign GPUs by 2030.
- Network goals include converting 5G to standalone by 2026, deploying 500 plus AI‑optimized 6G sites, quadrupling backbone capacity, doubling undersea cables and targeting a 20% share of the global 6G and AI network market by 2030.