AI at the Center at FYUZ

During FYUZ 2025 we heard from multiple speakers and presentation strategies of using AI for networks, as well as how to build networks for AI with monetization in mind.

On Monday, FYUZ Day 1, Thierry Nagellen, VP of Research at Orange, highlighted some of the work that TIP’s TelcoAI Project Group have been working on at the opening mainstage panel session. Agentic AI was a key topic, and remained a consistent topic across multiple talks throughout the course of the event. There was also a key emphasis on the need for Operators to move fast in their AI initiatives to ensure they do not fall behind the curve.   

On Tuesday, FYUZ day 2, we heard from executives representing Telus, Telefonica, AT&T and Orange on why AI is an essential component for the development of autonomous networks and evolution of future technologies such as 6G. Meta and AWS complemented the Operators on this panel with their insights on the rapid pace of AI development and areas Operators should focus on. Underpinning all of this was the subject of data, where the need for trusted access to relevant data was highlighted as an important prerequisite for accelerating the development and innovation of AI solutions in Telecoms. 

During the afternoon there was a TelcoAI Innovation Forum where 5 innovative companies pitched their solutions.

Gcore, https://gcore.com/, presented an opportunity for Telecom Operators to build AI factories and offer AI infrastructure to their customers. Gcore’s solutions enable Operators to build complete AI clouds with full stack to match Telecom needs.

Personal AI, https://www.personal.ai/, delivers efficient Small Language Models (SLMs) for Telecom Operators that can introduce new intelligence beyond voice, text and data. Using Personal AI SLMs and platform Telcos can address 100B incremental revenue opportunities with 50x lower unit economics.  

Aible, https://www.aible.com/, showed how you can build AI agents for business users at scale while keeping your data secure. With the Aible platform one can build Agentic Enterprise easily and drive customer acquisition and retention, monetize telco data with AI insights; and empower private 5G with Edge AI.

Centific, https://centific.com/, explained that Telcos can turn networks into intelligent systems and that the Edge is the new growth frontier. Centific’s vision agentic platform VerityAI can run Vision Language Models with Edge orchestration to autonomously act with networks. Centific is calling for co-creation of agentic edge platforms that helps cities, enterprises and citizens thrive.   

Varnish, https://www.varnish-software.com/, presented that by optimizing and managing storage for AI infrastructure one can increase GPU efficiency and cut data transfers tremendously. Varnish solution can integrate various storages to look as unified to GPUs and manage storage effectively. This can increase GPU efficiency as much as 75% and reduce data transfers up to 98% with great economical gains.  

Wednesday morning FYUZ started with the Data and AI Foundation Birds of Feather session. The purpose of the session was to discuss how we can create a better foundation for network data accessibility and build AI foundations for the future networks further strengthening the TelcoAI mission.

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