During NVIDIA GTC, NVDIA announced a series of partnerships with industry leaders, including T-Mobile, MITRE, Cisco, ODC and Booz Allen Hamilton, to advance the development of AI-native wireless networks and 6G technology. These collaborations aim to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into next-generation network hardware, software and architecture, setting new benchmarks in spectral efficiency, network performance and telco innovation.

“Next-generation wireless networks must be fundamentally integrated with AI to seamlessly connect hundreds of billions of phones, sensors, cameras, robots and autonomous vehicles,” NVIDIA stated in a press release. “AI-native wireless networks will provide enhanced services for billions of users and set new standards in spectral efficiency — the rate at which data can be transmitted over a given bandwidth. They will also offer groundbreaking performance and resource utilization while creating new revenue streams for telecommunications companies.”

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Expanding the AI-RAN ecosystem

NVIDIA’s collaborations will be anchored in an AI-native wireless network stack built on the NVIDIA AI Aerial platform, enabling software-defined radio access networks (RANs) on NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure. AI-RAN, a technology that merges AI and RAN workloads on a single platform, represents a significant step towards achieving network energy efficiency goals and realizing AI revenue streams for telecom operators. It is also positioned as a critical step toward fully AI-driven 6G networks.

T-Mobile will expand its AI-RAN Innovation Center, launched with NVIDIA in 2024, to accelerate research into AI-native 6G capabilities. The company sees AI integration as a key factor in delivering the high performance and scalability required for future wireless networks.

“This is an exciting next step in our efforts to natively integrate AI into the network as we begin the journey to 6G,” said Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile. “Working with these additional industry leaders will enable the network performance, efficiency and scale to power the next generation of experiences that customers and businesses expect.”

MITRE to be NVIDIA’s founding research partner

Nonprofit R&D organization MITRE will serve as NVIDIA’s founding research partner for 6G and will work on a “ground-up redesign” of wireless networks and infrastructure, with an emphasis on utilizing and enabling AI advancements. MITRE will serve as NVIDIA’s founding research partner for 6G.