Ericsson AI expertise is to play a central role in a new Sweden-focused AI Factory where a consortium of powerhouse Swedish companies will utilize NVIDIA computing capabilities to help drive national digitalization.
MAY 26, 2025
The Swedish consortium partners – Ericsson, AstraZeneca, SAAB, SEB and Wallenberg Investments AB – will build the system that will be operated by a joint company to offer secure, sovereign compute access to the industry partners.
The consortium aims to drive new AI innovation in Sweden through knowledge sharing and boosting AI competence within industry.
The intended first phase of the deployment will be two NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs featuring NVIDIA’s latest generation Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, making it the largest enterprise AI supercomputer in Sweden once operational.
It is intended to run compute-heavy AI workloads to speed up processes such as training of domain-specific AI models and large-scale inference, including reasoning AI.
To support the Swedish Consortium and NVIDIA goals, NVIDIA plans to establish its first AI Technology Center in Sweden to drive AI research with the industry partners.
NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, addressed the new initiative while attending events in southern Sweden on May 24, alongside Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Wallenberg Investments.
Welcoming the initiative, Ericsson Chief Technology Officer, Erik Ekudden, says: “AI has a key role to play in the network evolution with high-performance programmable and autonomous networks. AI and 5G are also critical in the future competitiveness of Sweden, and other countries, by driving innovation, enabling start-ups and delivering new use cases and capabilities. As a company that already invests heavily in AI research and development, Ericsson is looking forward to working with other leading Swedish companies and NVIDIA to ensure Sweden is at the forefront of AI development and benefits.”
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “As electricity powered the industrial age and the Internet fueled the digital age, AI is the engine of the next industrial revolution. Through the visionary initiative of Wallenberg Investments and Sweden’s industry leaders, the country is building its first AI infrastructure—laying the foundation for breakthroughs across science, industry, and society, and securing Sweden’s place at the forefront of the AI era.”
Marcus Wallenberg, chair of Wallenberg Investments, said: “Investing in cutting-edge AI infrastructure is a crucial step toward accelerating the development and adoption of AI across Swedish industry. We believe this initiative will generate valuable spillover effects—by enabling upskilling, fostering new collaborations, and strengthening the broader national AI ecosystem”
More on the Swedish Consortium partners:
ERICSSON: Ericsson will leverage its data science expertise to develop and deploy state-of-the-art AI models – improving performance and efficiency and enhancing customer experience. By harnessing the power of AI, Ericsson will enable new business models and use cases, for the billions of end-users that we serve.
ASTRAZENECA: AstraZeneca will use the system to spearhead the next generation of AI enabled drug discovery and development involving methods such as foundation model training, multi-model inference and unique data processing capabilities.
SAAB: Saab will deploy AI methodology to significantly accelerate development of new state-of-the-art defense capabilities, combining advanced AI applications with Saab’s world leading products and platforms.
SEB: SEB will use AI as a central part in its ambition to drive productivity enhancement, power new customer offerings and future-proof the bank. Securing access to critical infrastructure is a strategically important part of this ambition.
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