GSMA Foundry and GTI Sign Partnership at MWC Shanghai 2024

On June 26, 2024, at the GTI Summit during MWC Shanghai, GSMA and GTI formalised a new partnership aimed at driving innovation in the telecommunications sector. The partnership between GSMA’s innovation hub, GSMA Foundry, and the GTI 5G-A×AI Development Programme will launch a challenge later in 2024, focused on the development of converged solutions utilising 5G Advanced and Artificial Intelligence. 

Key Points of the Partnership:

  • Focus Areas: The partnership will focus on developing converged solutions using 5G Advanced (5G-A) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
  • Launch of Industry Challenges: A new challenge, set to launch later in 2024, will promote the development of these converged solutions.
  • Objectives: The GTI 5G-A×AI Development Programme, initially launched at MWC Barcelona 2024, aims to foster intelligent development through open laboratory environments, an innovation community, and exploration of innovative 5G-A×AI integration use cases.

GSMA Director General, Mats Granryd, and Tongqing Gao, Co-chairman of GTI and EVP of China Mobile, have signed anew partnership between GSMA Foundry and the GTI 5G-A×AI Development Programme.

GTI Background:

  • Founded in 2011, GTI is supported by China Mobile, SoftBank, T-Mobile US, and over 20 other industry partners. It promotes global cooperation to achieve commercial success in the telecommunications industry.