Accelerating Telco AI Adoption: Open Telco LLMs, Benchmarks and the AI RAN Challenge

This session will spotlight three exciting developments in Open Telco AI. First the session will introduce the latest version of the Open Telecom Benchmarks - a collaborative initiative across the industry establishing open evaluation benchmarks for telecom specific LLMs and SLMs. Second open-source Telco Specific LLMs will be demonstrated and third, the session will also unveil the AI RAN Competition; a global challenge co-hosted with ITU, ETSI, TM-Forum and IEEE inviting academia, industry and startups to fine-tune models for real-world fault resolution in radio access networks.