89% of Telecom Operators Bet on Open Models; NVIDIA Unveils 30B-Param Telco LTM
NVIDIA Blog · rss · 2026-10-06
NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report finds 89% of respondents consider open models important to their AI strategy. The post lays out five strategic values: frontier intelligence at lower cost, telco-specific fine-tuning, trustworthy governance, flexible deployment across cloud/private/edge, and local AI services for enterprise customers.
Product and case highlights:
- NVIDIA announced the 30-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model, fine-tuned on open telecom datasets for network configuration and incident triage, with a full end-to-end fine-tuning recipe via NeMo;
- SoftBank builds its Large Telecom Model on Nemotron foundations; AT&T stresses matching every workload to the right model mix; Indonesia's Indosat released Sahabat-AI, open models adapted to local language and culture.
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