How Nvidia is Moving to Support Telcos Develop AI-Led 6G
Nvidia has announced a series of industry-leading partnerships with T-Mobile, MITRE, Cisco, ODC and Booz Allen Hamilton on the research and development of AI-native wireless network hardware, software and architecture for 6G.
Celebrated at GTC 2025, these alliances are designed for the telcos to collaborate on the development of an AI-native network stack for 6G on Nvidia’s AI aerial platform. The company says that next-generation wireless networks must be “fundamentally integrated with AI” to connect phones, sensors, cameras, robots and autonomous vehicles.
These networks can also provide enhanced services for billions of users, offering ground-breaking performance and creating new revenue streams for telecommunications companies.
“Next-generation wireless networks will be revolutionary, and we have an unprecedented opportunity to ensure AI is woven in from the start,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia.
“Working with leaders in the field, we’re building an AI-enhanced 6G network that achieves extreme spectral efficiency.”
Prioritising an open ecosystem to drive innovation
AI research is critical for maximising the performance and benefits of AI-native wireless networks. With this in mind, in order to drive innovation, Nvidia is partnering with telcos with its NVIDIA AI Aerial platform, which provides software-defined radio access networks (RANs) on the NVIDIA accelerated computing platform.
- T-Mobile: Expanded partnership to expand AI-RAN Innovation Center
- MITRE: Research, prototype and contribute open AI-driven services and applications
- Cisco: Taking lead with its existing service provider reach and expertise
- ODC: To deliver cutting-edge layer 2 and layer 3 software for distributed and centralised units of virtual RAN as part of the AI-native radio access stack
- Booz Allen: Will develop AI RAN algorithms and secure the AI-native 6G wireless platform
Developers are currently building AI-RAN as a precursor to AI-native 6G wireless networks with the aim of bringing AI and RAN workloads together on one platform.
To deliver enhanced efficiency and lower operational complexity and costs, AI will be fully embedded into the network stack’s software and hosted over a unified accelerated infrastructure, which is capable of running both network and AI workloads.
Also at the solution’s core will be end-to-end security and an open architecture to foster rapid innovation.
In addition to this, T-Mobile and Nvidia will expand their AI-RAN Innovation Center collaboration with the goal of providing additional research-based concepts for AI-native 6G network capabilities.
“This is an exciting next step to the AI-RAN Innovation Center efforts we began last September at our Capital Markets Day in partnership with Nvidia,” says Mike Sievert, CEO of T-Mobile.
“Working with these additional industry leaders on research to natively integrate AI into the network as we begin the journey to 6G will enable the network performance, efficiency and scale to power the next generation of experiences that customers and businesses expect.”
Making AI-native 6G a reality
As the founding research partner, MITRE, a not-for-profit research and development organisation, will research, prototype and contribute open, AI-driven services and applications.
These will be for agentic network orchestration and security, dynamic spectrum sharing and 6G-integrated sensing and communications.
“MITRE is working with Nvidia to help make AI-native 6G a reality,” shares Mark Peters, President and CEO of MITRE. “By integrating AI into 6G in the beginning, we can solve a wide range of problems, from enhancing service delivery to unlocking required spectrum availability to fuel wireless growth.
“Through all of our collaborations with Nvidia, we look forward to creating impact in 6G, AI, simulation, transportation and more.”
These essential partnerships are designed to build on Nvidia’s AI-RAN and 6G research ecosystem. They will be supported by advancements in the Nvidia Aerial research portfolio for developing, training, simulating and deploying ground-breaking AI-native wireless innovations.
- Aerial Omniverse Digital Twin Service
- Aerial Commercial Test Bed on NVIDIA MGX, NVIDIA Sionna 1.0
- Sionna Research Kit on the NVIDIA Jetson accelerated computing platform
The NVIDIA Aerial Research portfolio serves over 2,000 members through the Nvidia 6G Developer Program.
Industry leaders and more than 150 higher-education and research institutions from the US and around the world are harnessing the platform to accelerate 6G and AI-RAN innovation, which Nvidia hopes will pave the way for AI-native wireless networks.
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