Telecom Operators Shift to Open Models for AI
NVIDIA's report reveals a significant 89% shift towards open models among telecom operators, enabling trust, control, and customization of AI capabilities.

- The Nemotron family of open models offers frontier-level reasoning performance optimized for agentic workflows and speech capabilities.
- According to NVIDIA Blog, telecom operators are adopting open models to build AI strategies, with a significant 89% shift towards open models, as revealed in NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report.
- This shift towards open models enables telecom operators to trust, control, and customize AI capabilities, which is critical for their business operations and customer needs.
What happened
According to NVIDIA Blog, telecom operators are adopting open models to build AI strategies, with a significant 89% shift towards open models, as revealed in NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report.
Why it matters
This shift towards open models enables telecom operators to trust, control, and customize AI capabilities, which is critical for their business operations and customer needs.
Key details
The Nemotron family of open models offers frontier-level reasoning performance optimized for agentic workflows and speech capabilities. SoftBank Corp. uses open models to develop and advance its telecom-specific AI capabilities. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison leverages open models to build AI that understands local languages, cultures, and data governance requirements. NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model is a 30-billion-parameter model fine-tuned on open source telecom datasets for telecom-specific tasks.
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