NVIDIA today announced a collaboration with Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank Corp., and T-Mobile to build a 6G network that natively supports artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.
The initiative represents a shared commitment to ensuring that 6G infrastructure is open, intelligent, resilient, and drives innovation. The goal of developing 6G infrastructure is that it will be the foundation for the AI era in a world filled with autonomous machines, robots, vehicles, and sensors that require ultra-smart and secure networks.
This is in line with NVIDIA’s $1 billion investment in Nokia last year and Softbank’s desire to integrate AI radio access networks (AI-RAN) into Japan’s telecommunications networks. The AI-RAN system has already been announced using NVIDIA chips as the backbone.
