Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models

NVIDIA's State of AI in Telecommunications report finds 89% of respondents say open source models and software are important to their AI strategy. NVIDIA announced the 30-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model, fine-tuned by AdaptKey on open source telecom datasets, plus a full fine-tuning recipe via NeMo. SoftBank, AT&T and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison are using open models for telecom-specific AI.