Samsung, a founding member of the AI-RAN Alliance, has laid out its grand vision for AI and the mobile network that goes beyond that proposed by the alliance. Samsung’s view includes two key concepts, Network for AI and AI for Network, and will ultimately lead to Samsung’s grand vision of the Network as a Data Center. Some of Samsung’s ideas overlap with the AI-RAN Alliance, and there is a sense that the South Korean vendor is saying that it got there first with the AI RAN pitch. Samsung has long been an advocate for the software-based network, or virtualized RAN (vRAN), and is now refining this product for the latest AI applications. It has released a white paper outlining its…