Inteligencia Artificial (IA)
AMD Drives Innovation in Artificial Intelligence with Its Participation in Open Telco AI
Paloma Firgaira
2026-03-04
5 min read
At the MWC 2026, AMD reaffirmed its commitment to open and collaborative innovation in the telecommunications sector, highlighting its participation in initiatives like Open Telco AI. The company focuses on comprehensive and scalable solutions that bring artificial intelligence from enterprise software to CPUs, GPUs, next-generation networking technologies, and adaptive computing.
The telecommunications sector is undergoing a key transition: operators are moving from experimenting with AI to deploying it in production, and from traditional RAN architectures to open and virtualized environments. This shift presents the challenge of implementing innovation at scale, which requires more than advanced models or isolated infrastructure. An open ecosystem is essential to facilitate the development of quality AI, robust software, and efficient computing for distributed edge deployments.
Telecommunications networks, among the most complex and critical systems, increasingly rely on AI to optimize operations, automate processes, and enhance resilience without disrupting service continuity for billions of users. However, according to GSMA, only 16% of generative AI implementations have reached networks, highlighting the gap between AI advancements and their real impact on telecommunications.
To address this challenge, AMD is joining AT&T, TensorWave, and other industry leaders in Open Telco AI, a global initiative led by GSMA and launched in Barcelona, aimed at accelerating the development of AI models and systems specific to telecommunications through open collaboration.
The launch of open-telco.ai marks a milestone, offering a portal where operators, providers, researchers, and developers can access shared resources, datasets, tools, and benchmarks. The initiative provides open models from AT&T, AMD's computing power, and TensorWave's hosting to facilitate the scalability of implementations.
In this context, AMD Instinct GPUs are key to training the models of Open Telco AI, transforming data and benchmarks into practical solutions for the sector. Alongside the open software platform AMD ROCm, these GPUs provide a solid foundation for training and inference, enabling teams to quickly advance from experimentation to validation.
However, the true impact on live networks depends on a software layer capable of turning models into repeatable, governed, and scalable services. The AMD Enterprise AI Suite is designed to facilitate the transition from experimentation to large-scale production, integrating open-source AI frameworks and generative models into an enterprise platform on AMD Computing.
This suite brings together production-oriented tools, model management, validated workflows, governance, and development environments, aimed at teams operating large-scale GPU infrastructure.
As open and virtualized networks grow, challenges such as energy consumption, edge efficiency, automation, and scalability arise. In this scenario, an efficient CPU base is essential for distributed deployments where energy, space, and predictability are critical.
The new AMD EPYC 8005 CPUs, optimized for demanding edge environments, offer high computing density for vRAN workloads and include intensive layer 1 processing. These processors are designed for real-world deployment conditions and support wide thermal ranges, allowing manufacturers to certify robust platforms suited for both outdoor and compact format systems.