SoftBank, Samsung demo AI agents coordinating stadium network

SoftBank has been developing the Large Telecom Model (LTM), a generative AI foundation model for the telecom industry, as the core of its efforts to make network operations more autonomous. The collaboration with Samsung Electronics builds on an agreement the two companies reached in October 2025 to work together in the AI-RAN field, covering 6G, AI for RAN, AI and RAN, and Large Telecom Model.

The joint research addresses a practical problem: real networks are made up of base stations, network functions, and operating systems from multiple vendors. Rather than having a single operator-side AI agent handle every vendor-specific control method, the research places a Telco Agent on SoftBank's side and a Vendor Agent on Samsung's side, each retaining its own domain knowledge and tools. The demonstration starts from a predicted load spike on cell A covering a stadium, and when that cell alone cannot meet the requested conditions, the Telco Agent checks neighboring cells and extends control to cell B.

What the demonstration illustrates is not only a particular optimization method but the coordination loop itself: the Vendor Agent returns an evaluation result, the Telco Agent makes the next decision based on the wider network view, and the Vendor Agent optimizes again. As more AI agents are expected to be used within networks, SoftBank says it will continue developing both the LTM and the mechanisms that let different agents interoperate.