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A published technical account states: 'K-Cloud Project (MS...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"k-cloud","provider":"K-Cloud","url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"Korean government programmes give Rebellions ATOM accelerators away, and the channel is a company. A published technical account states: 'K-Cloud Project (MSIT and NIPA, 3 years from 2023): the AI Semiconductor Farm construction and demonstration program. Three CSPs (Naver Cloud, KT Cloud, NHN Cloud) and three AI-chip makers (Rebellions, Sapeon, FuriosaAI) form a consortium' and 'High-Performance Computing Support Program (MSIT and NIPA, about 16.7B KRW in 2026): provides domestic NPU servers free of charge to selected demand companies... Gabia, for instance, provides Rebellions ATOM-Max at no cost.' The authors obtained '4x ATOM+ cards through one of these paths, in the form of KT Cloud's AI Nexus'.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"government-provisioned"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"The four cards arrived inside KT Cloud's AI Nexus, a rented cloud account with government funding behind it, and the compiler on top is free. It does not chain for a non-Korean individual: the free path exists only as a selection decision.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"allocation is by selection as a demand company inside a national programme, so the gate is a legal entity in Korea plus a review, not a quota.","source":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/"}],"limits_note":"allocation is by selection as a demand company inside a national programme, so the gate is a legal entity in Korea plus a review, not a quota.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"allocation is by selection as a demand company inside a national programme, so the gate is a legal entity in Korea plus a review, not a quota.","identity_cost":{"kind":"institution","detail":"a company selected into a Korean government programme, not an individual signup: capacity goes to 'selected demand companies', and the one documented route to hardware is '4x ATOM+ cards through one of these paths, in the form of KT Cloud's AI Nexus', a rented cloud account. What the KT Cloud account itself requires (a card, a Korean phone number, a business registration number) is not stated in this record's evidence, and no hold, debit or prepaid term is stated.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"published 2026-07-07: both programme descriptions, 'about 16.7B KRW in 2026', and 'We too obtained 4x ATOM+ cards through one of these paths, in the form of KT Cloud's AI Nexus', all quoted"},{"url":"https://en.sedaily.com/technology/2026/06/04/kt-cloud-launches-public-sector-npu-server-using-rebellions","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"KT Cloud launched an NPU Server on Rebellions chips for public institutions, the first Korean NPUaaS provider with CSAP certification"},{"url":"https://rebellions.ai/developers/","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"the RBLN SDK, compiler, runtime and a 300-model zoo are published for developers at no stated price"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"This is the largest free accelerator allocation that is not a trial, and it is unreachable for the reason every national allocation is. Confidence is reported because the primary sources are programme notices plus one operator account; What would settle it: the 2026 NIPA notice text and its applicant class.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"national-programme","free_tier_kind":"government-provisioned","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":"Rebellions ATOM+ RBLN-CA22","gpu_count":4}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}