The pair intends to develop cellular infrastructure for running edge AI workloads

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday announced a partnership with Nokia to integrate AI technology into its mobile network infrastructure, bringing accelerated computing to the edge and paving the way for 6G-ready networks. As part of the deal, Nvidia will invest $1 billion in Nokia. Team Green's gear will boost spectral efficiency and make AI inference more accessible from mobile devices.

Speaking at the company's GTC conference in Washington, DC, Huang said, "This is a brand new opportunity. Remember, the internet enabled communications. But amazingly smart companies, AWS, built a cloud computing system on top of the internet. We are now going to do the same thing on top of the wireless telecommunications network. This new cloud will be an edge, industrial, robotics cloud."

Nvidia's deal with Nokia, one of the largest telecom equipment vendors in the world, will give the company access to Nvidia's AI-RAN ...