GSMA launches Open Telco AI to accelerate development of telco‑grade AI
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GSMA launched Open Telco AI on March 2, 2026 to accelerate development of telco‑grade AI through open models, datasets, compute and benchmarks. The portal (GSMA.com/open-telco-ai) hosts open telco models from AT&T, datasets from universities and partners, AMD/TensorWave compute, and a Telco Capability Index.
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New initiative is supported by open-telco models, including a new family of models from AT&T, compute from AMD and TensorWave, datasets from researchers and a new portal for industry contribution and collaboration via GSMA.com/open-telco-ai
While frontier AI models have advanced rapidly, they continue to underperform on telecom specific tasks. Many general-purpose models struggle to interpret network data, understand standards documentation, or automate network operations with sufficient accuracy. This performance gap limits progress: only
Open Telco AI meets this challenge by uniting industry and academic partners to build the foundations of telco‑grade AI models, data, compute, benchmarks and community. Progress is tracked through the Telco Capability Index, which measures model performance across an expanding set of telecom‑specific tasks.
As founding supporters of Open Telco AI, AT&T and AMD are making significant contributions. AT&T is releasing a family of open telco-models developed and trained on open, publicly available data to be hardware and cloud‑agnostic, demonstrating that AI can deliver value across projects of any size and with varying levels of compute resources. AMD is providing compute capacity for model training, fine‑tuning, inference and evaluation through its GPU platforms, cloud partner TensorWave and open toolchains.
The initiative is also supported by community programmes that bring together developers, researchers and operators to solve real-world telecom‑AI problems. This includes competitions such as the AI Telco Troubleshooting Challenge which attracted over 1,000 registrations and will announce its winners at MWC26
Louis Powell, Director of AI Initiatives, GSMA, said: "Today's AI models still fall short of the complexity, precision and reliability the telecom industry demands. Put simply, AI does not yet speak telco and operators are often deploying technology that cannot meet the required levels of accuracy, safety or efficiency. Establishing clear benchmarks and collaborating across the industry on datasets, models and agentic systems is essential. Open Telco AI provides a shared foundation designed to close this gap, an approach that other regulated sectors such as finance and healthcare can follow."
"Telco networks are among the most demanding and regulated environments for AI and moving from promising demos to telco-grade performance requires an open foundation for data, workloads and compute," said Philip Guido, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, AMD. "Through Open Telco AI, with GSMA and AT&T, AMD delivers the enterprise and AI compute needed to train, fine-tune and run open, telco-grade models efficiently from core to edge."
Andy Markus, Chief Data and AI Officer at AT&T, said: "The telecom industry needs AI that understands the realities of networks – not only generic models repurposed for telco tasks. Through Open Telco AI, AT&T is helping build the datasets, models and evaluation frameworks that make telco‑grade AI possible at scale. By contributing our expertise and shaping realistic test environments, we're demonstrating how generative and agentic AI can improve customer experience, reduce operational friction and ultimately create new value. This collaboration with GSMA is accelerating the industry's path toward intelligent, automated networks."
Building the Open Foundations of Telco-Grade AI
The new portal will support the co‑creation of the essential building blocks for telco‑grade AI, including:
- Telco Models: High performance open weight models designed for telecom tasks, from network troubleshooting to standards interpretation, including modelsof multiple sizes and architectures from AT&T, a radio-frequency language model from Khalifa University called RFGPT and a Large Telco Model (LTM) from AdaptKey AI built on NVIDIA Nemotron.
- Open Data: A library of knowledge graphs, embeddings, and fine-tuning datasets of text, logs, and curated standards material from GSMA, Huawei Technologies France, Khalifa University, Mantis NLP, NetoAI, Pleias, Purdue University, The University of
Texas atDallas , University of Leeds and Yale University, and pipelines for generating synthetic data from NVIDIA. - Compute: Access to compute and open toolchain for projects training and inferencing open models via AMD and TensorWave.
- Benchmarks: A leaderboard assessing model performance on seven telecom‑specific benchmarks, along with tools for evaluating and submitting models from local environments.
- Community: Resources, challenges and engagement activities to encourage collaboration, including the AI Telco Troubleshooting Challenge and Agentic Challenge.
The Open Telco AI initiative is supported by a host of valued contributing partners that have submitted data, models, and use cases including AMD, AT&T, Datumo, Huawei Technologies France, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KDDI, Khalifa University, KPN, LGU+, Mantis NLP, NetoAI, North Carolina State University, NVIDIA Orange, Ooredoo, Pleias, Purdue University, RelationalAI, SK Telecom, Softbank, Swisscom, TensorWave, Turkcell, University of Leeds, University of
For more information, and to register interest, new partners can visit GSMA.com/open-telco-ai.
[1] Source: GSMA Intelligence, Telco AI: State of the Market, Q4 2025, (published January 2026)
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