{"id":42554,"date":"2024-11-18T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/?p=42554"},"modified":"2024-11-18T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:43:26","slug":"telcos-are-fully-embracing-ai-as-a-crucial-component-of-network-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/latest-news\/telcos-are-fully-embracing-ai-as-a-crucial-component-of-network-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos are fully embracing AI as a crucial component of network strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several announcements made in the last week highlight telecoms operators\u2019 advancement in AI. SoftBank has launched a solution based on the AI-RAN concept, with a commercialisation target of 2025. Meanwhile, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and tech conglomerate GoTo have announced the first phase of Sahabat-AI, an open-source large language model (LLM) ecosystem developed with Nvidia\u2019s full-stack AI platform, which will empower Indonesians through advanced technology. Separately, NTT Group is moving forward with NTT Communications\u2019 launch of NTT\u2019s LLM, accelerated with Nvidia TensorRT-LLM for AI-agent customer experiences and use cases such as document summarisation. Lastly, China Unicom and ZTE have launched an AI-driven anti-fraud system solution to enhance network defence, ensuring data and privacy security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI technology is now an integral part of telecoms operators\u2019 strategic and operational plans. Operators are making important advancements in the deployment of AI technology, which is serving as a transformative force shaping the telecoms industry. By deploying autonomous AI-based systems, operators can enhance operational efficiency, customer satisfaction and security, while also creating new revenue opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/china-unicom-and-zte-launch-multimodal-llm-enhanced-message-anti-fraud-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mobile World Live<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softbank.jp\/en\/corp\/technology\/research\/news\/052\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Softbank<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/jakartaglobe.id\/tech\/sahabatai-indosat-and-goto-launch-indonesias-first-opensource-ai-ecosystem-with-nvidia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jakarta Globe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/japan-tech-leaders-sovereign-ai-omniverse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NVIDIA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several announcements made in the last week highlight telecoms operators\u2019 advancement in AI. SoftBank has launched a solution based on the AI-RAN concept, with a commercialisation target of 2025. Meanwhile, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and tech conglomerate GoTo have announced the first phase of Sahabat-AI, an open-source large language model (LLM) ecosystem developed with Nvidia\u2019s full-stack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":42555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6894,60],"tags":[],"algolia_discover_type":[],"class_list":["post-42554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5g-digest","category-latest-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Telcos are fully embracing AI as a crucial component of network strategy - Networks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/solutions-and-impact\/technologies\/networks\/latest-news\/telcos-are-fully-embracing-ai-as-a-crucial-component-of-network-strategy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Telcos are fully embracing AI as a crucial component of network strategy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Several announcements made in the last week highlight telecoms operators\u2019 advancement in AI. 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