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K-Cloud Compute

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Free tier	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; government-provisioned
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution 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.
Limits	write-gated 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 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 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	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.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
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.
Evidence rung	reported
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-05

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	blog.caveduck.io/posts/modernbert-on-rebellions-npu/	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
2026-10-22	en.sedaily.com/technology/2026/06/04/kt-cloud-launches-publi	KT Cloud launched an NPU Server on Rebellions chips for public institutions, the first Korean NPUaaS provider with CSAP certification
2026-10-22	rebellions.ai/developers/	the RBLN SDK, compiler, runtime and a 300-model zoo are published for developers at no stated price

More fields (1)

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Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
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$.reliability_note none-observed
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$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated