# NVIDIA — Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models

- Company: NVIDIA (nvidia.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-06T13:00:19+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telecom-operators-open-models/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16202-why-telecom-operators-are-building-their-ai-strategy-on-open-models
- Subject: AI platform
- Models affected: Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model (LTM), NVIDIA Nemotron family

NVIDIA's report finds 89% of telecom respondents consider open-source models important to their AI strategy. The company released the 30-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Large Telco Model, fine-tuned by AdaptKey on open-source telecom datasets, and published a full fine-tuning recipe using NVIDIA NeMo libraries to help operators customize open models with their own data.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/telecom-operators-open-models/:

> NVIDIA’s latest State of AI in Telecommunications report reflects this shift, with 89% of respondents reporting that open source models and software are important to their company’s AI strategy.

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