Telenor is entering the next phase of its AI journey with a significant expansion of its Sovereign AI Factory – Norway’s first of its kind. The facility is now scaling to meet increasing demand from both internal and external users, enabling new opportunities for secure, sovereign, and sustainable AI development.
Since its launch, the AI Factory has supported a growing number of real-world applications – from voice-to-voice translation and public sector digitalisation to hosting Norway’s own language models and accelerating industrial automation. Capgemini has been a key partner to build Norway’s first sovereign AI infrastructure in collaboration with NVIDIA, including developing BabelSpeak – a new AI service for multilingual translation in more than 100 languages – hosted on Telenor’s AI infrastructure, supporting enterprises and government applications. As interest grows across industries, Telenor is enhancing its infrastructure to deliver scalable, enterprise-ready services.
To support this growth, Telenor is integrating NVIDIA AI Enterprise into its platform, enabling faster and more efficient deployment of generative and agentic AI applications. These capabilities also support Telenor’s own innovation efforts, including private network automation and AI-driven optimisation in maritime use cases.
One such use case is being developed in collaboration with Telenor Maritime, where agentic AI is being applied to optimise private 5G networks at sea. In a pioneering field trial, the company is implementing the NVIDIA AI Blueprint for telco network configuration, built with BubbleRAN – enabling natural language-based controls for improved network installation and configuration.