According to Nvidia, SoftBank Group has made great achievements in technology by working closely with Nvidia to develop a new type of telecom network that can run both AI and 5G workloads, known in the industry as the artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN). Through outdoor trials in Kanagawa Prefecture, SoftBank Group demonstrated that its NVIDIA accelerated AI-RAN solution has achieved carrier-grade 5G performance and is able to use the excess capacity of the network to run AI inference workloads simultaneously.