Tanya Weaver Wed 29 Oct 2025
Collected at: https://eandt.theiet.org/2025/10/29/nvidia-invest-1bn-nokia-bring-next-gen-ai-mobile-networks-us
Nvidia and Nokia have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate next-gen AI mobile networks to enable the US to “regain global telecommunications leadership”.
The announcement was made during the tech giant’s annual Nvidia GPU Technology Conference (GTC), a major technology and developer event taking place in Washington DC.
During his keynote speech, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang said that while telecommunications was the lifeblood of the US economy, wireless technology around the world was largely today “deployed on foreign technology”.
“That has to stop – and we have an opportunity to do that. It’s time to get back into the game,” he said.
By joining forces with Nokia, the aim is for the Finnish tech company to use Nvidia’s AI chips and software to build smarter, more powerful mobile networks, including next-gen 6G, in the US.
This means that US-built tech will power these new mobile networks, a move that represents a nationalistic power shift to help “US companies regain leadership in building and running advanced telecom networks” and loosen dependence on non-US telecom vendors (such as Huawei or Ericsson).
Huang announced that, to make this possible, Nvidia will invest $1bn in Nokia to accelerate AI-Radio Access Network (AI-RAN) innovation and integrate it into the development of 6G.
These AI-RAN systems should make mobile networks faster, more efficient and better at supporting AI apps. The same network set-up would also support future 6G AI services, such as drones, cars, robots and AR/VR glasses.
Huang said: “Built on Nvidia CUDA and AI, AI-RAN will revolutionise telecommunications – a generational platform shift that empowers the United States to regain global leadership in this vital infrastructure technology.
“Together with Nokia and America’s telecom ecosystem, we’re igniting this revolution, equipping operators to build intelligent, adaptive networks that will define the next generation of global connectivity.”
Other headline announcements made during the event include Nvidia teaming up with Oracle to build the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) largest AI supercomputer featuring a “record-breaking” 100,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
This system, which will be based at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, will enable scientists and researchers to develop and train new frontier models and AI reasoning models for scientific discovery.
Huang also said that Uber and Nvidia would join forces to deploy 100,000 robotaxis, starting in 2027.
These vehicles will feature Nvidia’s new Drive AGX Hyperion 10 autonomous vehicle development platform, which enables level-4 autonomy. Level-4 autonomous vehicles can handle driving demands independently.
“Robotaxis mark the beginning of a global transformation in mobility – making transportation safer, cleaner and more efficient,” Huang said.
“In the future, you’ll be able to hail up one of these cars. The ecosystem is going to be incredibly rich, and we’ll have Hyperion or robotaxi cars all over the world,” he added.
Other announcements made during the event include the launch of NVQLink, an open system architecture for tightly coupling the extreme performance of GPU computing with quantum processors to build accelerated quantum supercomputers.
To view Huang’s keynote, along with all the announcements made, watch the video below.
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