AMD is participating in Open Telco AI, a new global industry initiative led by the GSMA to accelerate the development, evaluation, and adoption of artificial intelligence systems specifically tailored for the telecommunications sector (“telco-grade AI”). Open Telco AI is a collaborative, open ecosystem for building, testing, and improving AI tools that truly understand and work with telecom data and workflows.
The idea is to address the limitations of general-purpose AI models like large language models when applied to telecom-specific tasks such as network operations, standards interpretation, and troubleshooting, according to the group.
As part of the collaboration, AT&T is contributing Open Telco models, AMD is providing compute, and TensorWave is offering hosting infrastructure. AMD Instinct GPUs are used to train the Open Telco AI models, creating telco-focused models that others in the ecosystem can reuse and extend. These GPUs run AMD’S ROCm software stack, an open platform for training and inference.
