BT adopts NVIDIA’s telco LLM in pursuit of autonomous, intent-based networks

Joe Purnell2026-04-07T14:40:00

Source: NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s large telco model is playing a ‘significant’ role in BT’s journey to network autonomy, providing a data sandbox in which the Group can conduct AI R&D. Data & AI lead Séainín McCoy considers the use of synthetic data to be paramount for maximisation of RoI and mitigation of risk…

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Themes: Autonomous networks; Synthetic data; Large Telco Model (LTM); Network simulation; AI‑driven optimisation; Converged‑network analytics; Distributed LLM inferencing; Network slicing; Energy‑efficient AI; Telco‑specific agent training; Risk‑managed AI deployment.
People: Séainín McCoy; Chris Penrose; Amol Phadke; Jensen Huang.
Geographic: UK; France; Germany; Italy; Ireland.
Organisations: BT; NVIDIA; GSMA; Tech Mahindra; SoftBank; Accenture; TCS; Qualcomm; Ericsson.

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