The Telecom Industry Is Building Its Own AI Stack

GSMA just launched Open Telco AI as an industry portal to support telecom focused artificial intelligence development across operators, vendors and researchers.

The initiative includes shared models, datasets, compute support and a benchmarking system called the Telco Capability Index. The goal is to accelerate development of telco grade AI for network operations and service management.

AT&T contributed a family of telecom specific models trained on publicly available data. AMD will provide GPU compute through its Instinct platforms and named TensorWave as a hosting partner supporting training and inference. Both companies are founding supporters of the initiative.

The effort has been described as tailoring artificial intelligence models to telecom requirements in response to industry difficulty applying general purpose systems to network specific tasks.