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NVIDIA has announced a surprise partnership with Nokia to bring 6G connectivity by utilizing the firm's new AI-RAN products, involving Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs. NVIDIA's Collaboration With Nokia Allows Merging CUDA & Computing Tech With Existing RAN Infrastructure Team Green has managed to integrate AI into everything mainstream, and it seems that the telecommunications industry is now expected to benefit from the next wave of AI's computing capabilities. At the GTC 2025 keynote, NVIDIA's CEO announced a pivotal partnership with Nokia, formally entering the race for achieving 6G connectivity through a new suite of AI-RAN products combined with Nokia's leading telecom infrastructure. To consolidate the collaboration, NVIDIA is investing $1 billion into Nokia, at a price of $6.01 per share. The partnership marks the beginning of the AI-native wireless era, providing the foundation to support AI-powered consumer experiences and enterprise services at the edge. Together, NVIDIA and Nokia are also laying the strategic infrastructure and opening up a new high-growth frontier for telecom providers by delivering distributed edge AI inferencing at scale. NVIDIA's new lineup of products for this venture is called ARC (Aerial RAN Computer), which is claimed to be a platform ready for 6G computing by embedding RAN software into the CUDA tech stack, to achieve accelerated performance. Jensen revealed that ARC will feature Grace CPUs and Blackwell GPUs onboard, marking the first occasion where the telecom infrastructure will have massive performance capabilities at its disposal. The ARC ecosystem will be integrated into Nokia's existing RAN buildout, enabling customers to make a seamless transition to 6G. Nokia will 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. This partnership will enable Nokia’s mobile network customers to transition seamlessly from today’s RAN networks to future AI-RAN networks. As for when we can expect to see the technology become mainstream, NVIDIA has revealed that network carrier T-Mobile will begin "field tests" of the AI-RAN technologies in 2026, paving the way for 6G innovations to begin in the US.
