Strategic collaboration to support research, AI model reliability and the availability of a new LLM for deep telco domain capabilities The GSMA Foundry, the GSMA’s innovation hub, and The Khalifa University of Science and Technology, a top-ranked higher education institution in the UAE, today announced a strategic cooperation agreement on the opening day of MWC Doha. The new collaboration aims to advance research and innovation in telco AI through a shared commitment to knowledge exchange and digital transformation. Khalifa University will collaborate with GSMA Foundry to develop specialised AI data assets, models and benchmarking frameworks for telecom applications,…
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Merouane Debbah, Director, Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, Professor, Computer and Information Engineering, and Ambassador for Khalifa University’s Digital Future strategy. With over two decades of experience behind him, Professor Merouane Debbah remains at the forefront of wireless communications, mathematics and artificial intelligence. He has built top-tier teams at major industry leaders including Motorola, his first job after a PhD at École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (2002), and Huawei. He joined Khalifa University in 2023 to establish the 6G Research Center, a new hub dedicated to shaping the future of wireless technology. Tell us about your role as Khalifa’s…
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Team Outperforms 65 Global Competitors in Advancing AI-Driven Wireless Systems Khalifa University of Science and Technology’s 6G Research Center (6GRC) has won first place globally in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Large Wireless Model (LWM) Challenge 2025 that brought together 65 teams from around the world to advance AI-native and data-efficient wireless communication, a cornerstone for the next generation of 6G networks. The winning 6GRC team included Post Doctoral Fellows, Dr. Yu Tian, Dr. Brahim Mefgouda, and Research Engineer Anis Bara, from Computer and Information Engineering, under the guidance of Professor Merouane Debbah, Director, 6GRC. The team’s creative…
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Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, in collaboration with GSMA and a global coalition of operators, researchers, and technology partners, is proud to announce the launch of GSMA Open-Telco LLM Benchmarks 2.0: The first comprehensive evaluation suite purpose-built to measure how large language models perform on real-world telecom tasks. This first-of-its-kind initiative rigorously assesses models on critical operator workflows, including intent-to-configuration, network troubleshooting, standards interpretation, domain Q&A, and telecom math reasoning, bringing objective, transparent metrics to the heart of AI-native network operations. Built by the industry, for the industry, the benchmark advances trustworthy AI adoption by combining deep domain understanding, structured…
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UAE Leads AI Innovation in Telecom with Launch of Region’s First Arabic AI for Customer Experience Transformation Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, UAE telecom provider du, Microsoft, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have jointly announced the official launch of TelecomGPT-Arabic, a breakthrough generative AI model purpose-built for Arabic-speaking users across the world. This first-of-its-kind sovereign Arabic-language telecom assistant is designed to understand and resolve real-time network and device issues through intelligent, culturally fluent dialogue, setting a new standard for personalized, human-centric customer care. TelecomGPT-Arabic offers unique advantages. It is developed and trained in the region, for the region — ensuring linguistic…
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The KU 6G Center Wins First Place in MIT-organized International Challenge Hearty congratulations to the 6G Center for securing the coveted top spot at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing 2024 (ICASSP) Grand Challenge, organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The global competition sought inventive approaches to Data-Driven Signal Separation in the Radio Spectrum, a crucial element in advancing Wireless Communication technologies. ICASSP is the world’s largest technical conference focused on signal processing and related applications. It offers a technical program presenting all the latest development in research and technology in the…
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Holographic MIMO technology offers potential to revolutionize connectivity and launch the 6G networks of the future, says Khalifa University’s Prof. Merouane Debbah, but it’s not without its challenges. The landscape of wireless communication underwent a transformative shift with the advent of fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks, now being rolled out globally. However, the ambitions of 5G are already paving the way for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. A team of researchers including Khalifa University’s Prof. Merouane Debbah has investigated a potential and promising technology for supporting the expected extreme requirements of 6G communication systems: the holographic multiple-input multiple-output…
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