NVIDIA and Nokia partner to pioneer AI platform for 6G
NVIDIA and Nokia have announced a strategic partnership to add NVIDIA-powered, commercial-grade AI-RAN products to Nokia’s RAN portfolio, enabling communication service providers to launch AI-native 5G-Advanced and 6G networks on NVIDIA platforms. NVIDIA will also invest US$1 billion in Nokia at a subscription price of US$6.01 per share; the investment is subject to customary closing conditions.
The partnership is said to mark the beginning of the AI-native wireless era, providing the foundation to support AI-powered consumer experiences and enterprise services at the edge while also addressing the fast-growing AI-RAN market. Together, NVIDIA and Nokia say they are opening up a new high-growth frontier for telecom providers by delivering distributed edge AI inferencing at scale.
With Nokia and NVIDIA-powered AI-RAN systems, mobile operators should expect to improve performance and efficiency as well as to enhance network experiences for future generative and agentic AI applications and experiences. They will be able to introduce new AI services for 6G with the same infrastructure, powering billions of new connections for drones, cars, robots, and augmented- and virtual-reality glasses that demand connectivity, computing and sensing at the edge.
NVIDIA is introducing Aerial RAN Computer Pro (ARC-Pro) — a 6G-ready accelerated computing platform that combines connectivity, computing and sensing capabilities, enabling telcos to move from 5G-Advanced to 6G through software upgrades. Nokia will meanwhile accelerate the availability of its 5G and 6G RAN software on the NVIDIA CUDA platform and expand its RAN portfolio by embedding NVIDIA ARC-Pro at the heart of the new AI-RAN solution.
The partnership will enable Nokia’s mobile network customers to transition seamlessly from today’s RAN networks to future AI-RAN networks. The AI-RAN platform is said to unify AI and radio access workloads on a software-defined, accelerated infrastructure, boosting performance, efficiency and monetisation while enabling a smooth, cost-effective path to 6G.
T-Mobile will collaborate with Nokia and NVIDIA to drive and test AI-RAN technologies as a part of the 6G innovation and development process, with trials (expected to begin in 2026) focused on field validation of performance and efficiency gains for customers. The move should enable massive improvements in performance and efficiency, helping ensure that consumers using generative, agentic and physical AI applications on their devices will have seamless network experiences. It will also support future AI-native devices, while being ready for 6G applications such as integrated sensing and communications.
“The next leap in telecom isn’t just from 5G to 6G — it’s a fundamental redesign of the network to deliver AI-powered connectivity, capable of processing intelligence from the data centre all the way to the edge,” said Justin Hotard, President and CEO of Nokia. “Our partnership with NVIDIA, and their investment in Nokia, will accelerate AI-RAN innovation to put an AI data centre into everyone’s pocket.
“Our first AI-RAN deployments in T-Mobile’s network will ensure America leads in the advanced connectivity that AI needs.”
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