Telecoms equipment vendor Ericsson has launched an open source AI research initiative called Cognitive Labs, which will focus on leading edge technologies, such as Geometric AI and Machine Learning, that have applications in telecommunications.
The newly launched Cognitive Labs will research advanced technologies, such as Graph Neural Networks (GNN), Active Learning and Large-Scale Language Models, that the company says will be fundamental to developing the next generation of mobile communications.
According to Ericsson, Cognitive Labs will only operate virtually with teams and activities centred in a few key locations such as Madrid, Malaga and Cairo to start.
Ericsson Spain is positioned as one of the reference regions for Cognitive Labs, because of R&D activities that Ericsson carries out from Madrid and Málaga around Cognitive Networks Solutions (CNS).
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As part of the Cognitive Labs initiative, Ericsson Spain has signed a research alliance with the engineering school of Universidad Pontificia Comillas to collaborate in open source initiatives and joint publications.
"The initiative, in collaboration with the open source community, will enable Ericsson to further advance AI research, attract researchers and data scientists, and create better solutions for their customers," Ericsson says.
Cognitive Labs has established three distinct labs to continue its research activities and develop libraries as reusable open source components:
- GAI Lab (Geometric Artificial Intelligence Lab)
- MLR Lab (Machine Learning and Reasoning Lab)
- FAI Lab (Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Lab)
“Cognitive Labs represents our commitment to lead innovation in AI and make a significant contribution to the open source community," said Jean-Christophe Laneri, Head of Cognitive Network Solutions at Ericsson.
"Our mission is to create world-class research that can benefit the academic community and enhances our products to better serve our customers.”