The GSMA has announced its support for The AI Telco Troubleshooting Challenge which launched today in collaboration with ETSI, IEEE GenAINet, ITU and TM Forum. The new challenge calls on telecom operators, AI researchers and startups to submit advanced large language models LLMs that can perform root cause analysis RCA on telecoms network faults. Network faults remain one of the most persistent and costly challenges facing the telecoms industry, leading to significant financial losses each year.
The new competition invites teams to submit AI models in three categories: Generalisation to New Faults will assess the best performing LLMs for RCA Small Models at the Edge will evaluate lightweight edge-deployable models and Explainability Reasoning will focus on the AI systems that clearly explain their reasoning. Additional categories will include securing edge-cloud deployments and enabling AI services for application developers.
The aim of the challenge is to identify practical solutions that lead to more resilient, efficient and automated networks. The judging criteria for the challenge will evaluate entrants for the accuracy, efficiency, reasoning capability and security considerations of their models. In addition to the lead community partners of ETSI, GSMA, IEEE GenAINet, ITU and TM Forum, The AI Telco Troubleshooting Challenge is supported by headline partners Huawei, InterDigital, NextGCloud, RelationalAI, xFlowResearch and technical advisors from AT T.
