Main chip maker Nvidia and SoftBank, the telecommunications arm of SoftBank Group, have piloted the world’s first synthetic intelligence and 5G telecommunications community, the 2 corporations stated on Wednesday.
The community can run AI and 5G workloads concurrently, a course of referred to as an AI radio entry community (AI-RAN), the businesses stated. Functions for the community embrace autonomous car distant assist and robotics management.
“Each different telco must observe this new wave,” SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son stated at an AI occasion the place he was talking alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Huang stated SoftBank was the primary to obtain its new Blackwell chip designs, which it’s incorporating into the AI supercomputer it’s creating to create its personal generative AI mannequin. — Anton Bridge, (c) 2024 Reuters
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