Key takeaways from MWC 2024 for enterprises

The Mobile Worlld Congress 2024 event was held in Barcelona, Spain between February 26-29, this year. It is considered on the landmark mobile technology events of the world. This year, more than 2,700 exhibitors participated, along with overall 101,000 attendees. While the event has heavy consumer tech presence, this year enterprise technology got a boost too. Following are the major highlights from MWC 2024.

Tech Mahindra’s Project Indus in Bahasa

Tech Mahindra signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indonesian operator Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison a large language model (LLM) to preserve Indonesai’s national language Bahasa. It will be built on Tech Mahindra’s in-house LLM initiative Project Indus, and will be utilised for applications such as customer support, content creation, rural education, agriculture, and telecom. Garuda will be developed with 16 billion original Bahasa tokens, providing 1.2 billion parameters

Intel’s bid at AI PCs for enterprise

US chipmaker Intel announced the new vPro platform platform that will extend the benefits of AI PC to commercial customers. This will offer enterprises, small and medium size business, and public sector access to enhanced features of Intel Core Ultra processors with built in Intel Arc GPUs,  will offers better performance, enhanced power efficiency, and dedicated AI acceleration capability. Towards this, Intel has announced partners like Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, Dynabook, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft Surface, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung and VAIO.

Intel also signed a collaboration with Nokia to run virtual baseband capabilities on Digital Automation Cloud (DAC). This will offer more accessible private wireless solutions for small enterprises.

AWS’ partnerships in generative AI, network transformation

One of the most significant announcement from AWS came in the form of its partnership with telecom companies globally to offer telco network APIs to AWS developers to build applications and host them on AWS.

Further, Samsung has also announced partnership with AWS to bring end-to-end virtualisation and software-centric networks to the market. These solutions are expected to satisfy demands for next-generation services and features. 

Lastly, BT Group announced that it has deployed AWS’ CodeWhisperer to provide generative AI coding assistance to its software engineers. This is the first suite of  generative AI tools that BT Group plans to introduce to enhance product development processes across the business.

Microsoft unveils advancements in AI and cloud

In light of increasing call-based scams, Microsoft Azure launched an AI-based tech called Azure Operator Call Protection that analyses voice content in real time. BT Group is already in the trial phase of this feature. Microsoft has also announced that it will bring Copilot in Azure Operator Insights to allow operators to give simple and straightforward explanations, and resolve network issues quickly. 

Dell’s automation suite

Dell, on Wednesday, announced the launch of Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite to automate the orchestration and lifecycle management of multi-vendor, network cloud infrastructure at scale. The software suite is based on open standards and APIs, offering users the flexibility to deploy and manage their choice of infrastructure across distributed, multi-vendor environments.