Hitachi Digital and Singtel have partnered up to target the enterprise market with products integrating the former’s industrial AI applications with the latter’s 5G, edge and multi-cloud orchestration platform Paragon. Meanwhile, in South Korea, LG Uplus unveiled a medium-to-long-term AI growth strategy for its enterprise business, setting a target of generating KRW2 trillion ($1.4 billion) in B2B revenue by 2028. The strategy will focus on AI data centres and on-device AI; AI platforms using smaller large language models; and AI-powered services for B2B customers. The operator plans to drive AI innovation by strengthening capabilities across its infrastructure and data assets while cooperating with AI platform companies and research institutions.
For operators, partnerships will be key to developing AI-powered solutions for enterprises embracing digital transformation. MWC Shanghai 2024 offered an opportunity to see how the Chinese ecosystem is leveraging 5G, AI, IoT and other technologies to enable digital transformation. More broadly, there will be a new wave of AI solutions coming for the industrial sector, the implications of which are explored in recent GSMA Intelligence Research.
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