Telco Giants Accelerate AI Integration in Next-Generation Networks

Key Intelligence

• ■Nokia and Nvidia are significantly deepening their AI-RAN partnership, expanding collaborations for AI-ready 5G networks and engaging new clients like TIM Brasil.
• ■SoftBank is actively developing its "Telco AI Cloud Vision," launching edge AI-RAN trials with Mitsubishi and aiming to build social infrastructure connecting robots, factories, and networks via AI.
• ■Major industry players, including Wind River and AMD, are forming strategic alliances to deliver unified O-RAN and AI-RAN platforms, while GSMA is initiating a partnership to promote industry-grade AI network models.
• ■DOCOMO and NEC have launched Japan's first commercial 5G Core on AWS utilizing AI-automated network construction, and T-Mobile/Deutsche Telekom are establishing a 6G innovation hub focused on AI-native networks.
• ■The industry is seeing breakthroughs in AI-native 5G radio networks and exploring how agentic AI can unlock new telco API opportunities.