- Tech News & Insight
- October 29, 2025
- Hema Kadia
SoftBank and NVIDIA have validated a fully software-defined, GPU-accelerated AI-RAN that delivers 16-layer massive MU-MIMO outdoors—an inflection point for vRAN performance, Open RAN scalability, and AI-native RAN design. SoftBank’s AI-RAN product, AITRAS, executed the entire 5G physical layer on NVIDIA GPUs at the Distributed Unit and demonstrated stable 16-layer multi-user




