en.Wedoany.com Reported - Orange and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have jointly established a research lab named "AI-Native Communications," dedicated to developing semantic communication technologies for future networks.

The lab was officially launched during the VivaTech conference, with Orange CEO Christel Heydemann and CEA Director General Anne-Isabelle Etienvre attending the unveiling ceremony, witnessed by French Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs Anne Le Hénanff.

Semantic communication changes how networks process data. In traditional models, any variation in transmitted bits is deemed an error, leading to degraded connection quality. Under the semantic approach, transmission is considered successful as long as the receiver understands the message's meaning, even if the received data is not an exact copy of the sent content.

Orange and CEA state that this approach can reduce data traffic in networks, lowering energy consumption and infrastructure requirements. As AI agents take on more critical roles in network operations, the technology also enables more efficient interactions between AI agents.

Over the five-year collaboration, both parties will focus on predicting network evolution, developing semantic communication technologies and applications, building shared semantic representations among AI models, and driving the formulation of emerging standards in this field.

The CEA Grenoble team has accumulated extensive experience in semantic communications over the years, supporting France's "Future Networks" and "France 6G" initiatives, as well as international projects such as 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC, and 6GARROW. Orange has nearly 700 researchers and approximately 11,000 active patents, and independently participates in standardization efforts including SUSTAIN-6G, the Hexa-X project, the NGMN Alliance, and the global IOWN Forum.

Lyse Brillouet, Executive Vice President of Research at Orange, stated that the lab highlights the operator's commitment to driving networks toward a smarter, more sustainable, and AI-native design, linking this project to broader sovereignty agendas in France and Europe. Etienvre noted that as intelligent networks take shape, this collaboration aims to enable Europe to design and influence technical standards.

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