SEOUL, July 25 (Yonhap) -- Naver Corp., the country's leading internet portal operator, has received a combined US$10 billion investment commitment from Nvidia and U.S. private equity firm Brookfield to finance its project to build an artificial intelligence (AI) data center here.

With the funding, Naver, also a major cloud service provider, will be able to accelerate its project, according to Lee Hae-jin, founder of Naver, in an AI summit held in San Francisco on Friday (local time).

Earlier, Naver said it would work with Nvidia to build large-scale, global AI infrastructure, starting with an expansion of its data center in South Korea.

Brookfield has agreed to invest up to $9 billion in Naver.

sam@yna.co.kr

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