The future of connectivity will be 6G, and NVIDIA is committed to building it on platforms that are open, secure, and artificial intelligence (AI)-native.
The pledge was made in conjunction with global infrastructure providers and operators including Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, ODC, SK Telecom, SoftBank, and T-Mobile.
The announcement positions the U.S. and its allies as leaders in 6G technology and is critical to economic prosperity, national security, and global competitiveness, said Arielle Roth, assistant secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), in a press release.
Global 6G infrastructure will support physical AI, and that could mean “autonomous machines, vehicles, sensors, and robots.” according to the release. 6G will also make possible “multimodal integrated sensing and communications capabilities for public safety and AI-driven spectrum agility,” NVIDIA said in October 2025.
Those applications demand security and trust, and legacy networks can’t rise to the occasion.
With 6G, AI will be embedded across the radio access network (RAN), including the edge and the core. It will be AI-native and software-defined, so will be able to continuously evolve through software.
“This commitment is about making critical decisions today that will shape how nations innovate, [and] how entire industries, economies, and societies will connect in the AI era,” said NVIDIA Senior Vice President of Telecommunications Ronnie Vasishta during an press briefing where the initiative was announced.
Vasishta added that, with T-Mobile as one of the global partners, this commitment will become reality in the U.S. soon.
The commitment comes nearly a year after NVIDIA reported that 97% of telecom providers were already implementing AI, including 84% who said it was already increasing revenues. A separate NVIDIA report from earlier in 2026 said telcos were using AI for network automation even more than for customer service.
The NVIDIA pledge brimmed with hope and promise, but policy challenges remain. 6G will require three times more midband spectrum by 2030 than is available today, according to GSMA’s recent Vision 2040 report. Without it, more than half the urban population will be capacity constrained.
