Swisscom today announced at AI House Davos a cooperation with NVIDIA to build generative AI (GenAI) full-stack supercomputers in Switzerland that will be based on NVIDIA accelerated computing and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. This includes the NVIDIA(opens in new tab) NeMo framework for building, customizing and deploying generative AI applications. Through the cooperation, Swisscom aims to develop standard, tailor-made and new AI use cases in collaboration with customers and for internal use.
As part of the cooperation, Swisscom plans to obtain the latest technologies from NVIDIA. Furthermore, Swisscom aims to establish a Trusted AI Factory, tapping the global ecosystem of NVIDIA, for Swiss customers.
Christoph Aeschlimann, Swisscom CEO says: “Working with NVIDIA enables us to act as a bridge-builder between the possibilities of technology and the needs of customers. As a first step, we are building a high-performance infrastructure upon which we will create trustworthy services. We have been in close contact with many customers to consult them on their specific needs.”
Swisscom Group plans to invest an amount of up to 100 million Swiss Francs related to AI Infrastructure and service development in the coming years.
“Telcos are increasingly seen as leaders in building, hosting and deploying sovereign AI. Having a trusted, high-performance infrastructure is becoming critical to every nation’s technological advancement,” said Keith Strier, Vice President of Worldwide AI Initiatives at NVIDIA. “Building on NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing platform for streamlining the development and deployment of production-grade AI applications Swisscom can enable leading, real-world AI solutions to Swiss companies, driving the transformation of the country’s economy.”