In June this year, during the 2025 MWC Shanghai exhibition, ZTE Corporation launched its first AI-native core network AIR Core (AI-Reshaping Core Network). By deeply integrating cutting-edge AI technologies such as large language models, communication large models, and digital twins, it drives the architectural transition of core networks from "Cloud Native" to "AI Native." Recently, the AI core network solution "AIR Core 2.0" made a grand debut at the 2025 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (PT Exhibition), attracting widespread industry attention with its breakthrough innovations and industry demonstration value, setting a new benchmark for global operators' digital transformation.

ZTE's AI core network solution "AIR Core 2.0" made a spectacular appearance at the 2025 China International Information and Communication Exhibition (PT Exhibition), drawing extensive industry attention.

**From "Small Model + Interaction" to "Large Model + Intelligent Agent"**

What breakthroughs does ZTE AIR Core bring from version 1.0 to 2.0? According to reports, based on the core concept of "AI Reshaping," ZTE AIR Core 2.0 achieves a paradigm leap from the 1.0 stage of "small model + interactive" to the 2.0 stage of "large model + intelligent agent." Through deep integration of AI capabilities across four major dimensions - business, connectivity, operations, and network cloud - AIR Core 2.0 delivers immersive and personalized business experiences for users, provides intent-driven and scenario-based network orchestration and operations management for operators, and offers convenient capability opening interfaces for third-party developers.

**Multi-Domain Implementation and Results**

Currently, ZTE AIR Core has fully entered the pilot and pre-commercial stage, achieving tangible results in multiple core functional areas including new calling, experience assurance, intelligent agents, and computing-network infrastructure.

• AI + New Calling: Through plugin architecture and calling large models, calls are transformed into new business entry points, providing users with dozens of services such as AI assistants, AI chat agents, and AI anti-fraud services, extending to e-commerce, finance, and other industry sectors.

• AI-Native Network Elements: NWDAF intelligent analysis and decision network elements and AI UPF have achieved commercial deployment, capable of real-time perception of network and user status, providing dynamic experience assurance based on users' current business KQI/MOS values, making live streaming smoother and eliminating lag in gaming/video conferencing.

• Digital Twin Simulation Agent (NetTwinGuard): Capable of signaling storm simulation, effectively predicting signaling storm situations caused by network element failures, network operations, and disaster events, improving the efficiency of failure and network operation impact assessment, upgrading the operations model from "passive disaster response" to "proactive immunity."

• Computing-Network Integration Infrastructure: The network cloud at the core network infrastructure layer introduces diversified computing power through xPU, multi-element storage, and lossless networks, building a highly reliable, high-performance integrated foundation for intelligent computing/communication computing/networking for AIR Core, meeting the inference and training needs of communication large models and supporting intelligent applications from center to edge for AIR Core.

**Opening a New Era of Full-Network Intelligence**

Currently, the world is entering a new development stage characterized by digitalization, intelligence, and networking. Networks are both the key to forming new quality productive forces and the foundation for supporting other industries in achieving new quality productive forces. As the brain of mobile networks, core networks achieve full AI transformation through "AI+" revolution. The evolution of AIR Core 2.0 is not only a technological iteration but also a strategic redefinition of the value of core networks - driving the transformation of core networks from mere "connectivity providers" to "intelligent service enablers."

As the 5G-A and 6G era approaches, this innovative practice will continue to unleash the potential of network intelligence, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of the digital economy.