It is very easy to be cynical when reporting on industry announcements and events. ‘Sovereign AI’ is a term that could prompt an almost Pavlovian response among journalists to seize on and eviscerate whichever firm made the announcement. But Nvidia has the ears of the telcos, both fixed-line and mobile, and so when it pitches an ecosystem, the industry listens. We covered the initial soft-launch of the AI-RAN offering, on which the AI Factory concept is based. However, more detail was needed. Ronnie Vasishta, SVP Telecoms at Nvidia, absorbed Wireless Watch’s expositional rant, decrying how so many operators are so overly reliant on vendors, that many could not innovate their way out the hole they have dug for themselves. This…