While the AI-RAN Alliance claims burgeoning membership, and certainly does have plenty of support in the US and Asia Pacific, representation from telcos is low, with European telcos notably absent – a clear signal that the AI-RAN proposition is not yet drawing interest from the broader telco community. At Wireless Watch, we are skeptical of the proposition offered by the AI-RAN Alliance – of putting expensive and power-hungry GPUs into the RAN, with an unclear return on those investments. What is starkly clear is the absence of European telcos. We suspect that this is because they cannot be sold on the lofty pitch of AI-RAN. The group proposes to transform RAN with AI with three snappy tenets: AI and RAN,…