Softbank Group is building the first artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer using Nvidia’s Blackwell processors in a grand plan to transform its cellular base stations into a nationwide AI grid in Japan.
Blackwell, the most powerful AI computing platform yet devised, was announced by Nvidia last March. Softbank has already demonstrated simultaneous 5G smartphone service while processing AI inference workloads in an outdoor trial in Kanagawa prefecture, west of Tokyo.
Japan’s third-largest mobile telecom carrier is now ready to create the world’s first combined AI and 5G telecom network.