en.Wedoany.com Reported - Orange and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) have jointly established a world-class joint research laboratory for semantic communications, named "AI-Native Communications," aimed at advancing semantic communication technology to develop more efficient and sustainable future networks. The collaboration was announced by Orange CEO Christel Heydemann and CEA General Administrator Anne-Isabelle Etienvre at the Orange booth at VivaTech, with French Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs Anne Le Hénanff attending the launch.

Traditional networks transmit data by precisely replicating bits, where any minor variation is considered an error. Semantic communications introduce a new paradigm: transmission is considered correct as long as the receiver understands the meaning of the message, without requiring exact data consistency. This approach can significantly reduce the amount of data exchanged, enabling more efficient, energy-saving networks with lower infrastructure investment, and also opens new prospects for interactions between AI agents. According to the plan, the partners will predict network evolution, develop semantic communication technologies and their applications, design AI models for shared semantic representation, and drive future standard-setting.

This five-year collaboration is a joint initiative by both parties in the area of technological sovereignty. The CEA Grenoble team has accumulated years of expertise in semantic communications, establishing internationally recognized knowledge at the intersection of AI, signal processing, and intelligent networks. Their work lays the foundation for France's and Europe's "Future Networks" and "France 6G" initiatives. Both parties are also jointly advancing research on the sustainability of 6G communications by coordinating major European and Asian projects such as 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC, and 6GARROW, as well as participating in the European Commission's flagship projects Hexa-X and SUSTAIN-6G. Orange, with nearly 700 researchers and 11,000 active patents, shapes technical standards through collaborations such as SUSTAIN-6G, Hexa-X and Hexa-X-II, the NGMN Alliance, and the global IOWN Forum.

Lyse Brillouet, Executive Vice President of Research at Orange, stated that the joint laboratory represents Orange's commitment to building smarter, more sustainable networks designed for AI-native operations, helping to position France and Europe at the forefront of future standards. Anne-Isabelle Etienvre, General Administrator of CEA, noted that semantic communications represent a major breakthrough in information processing for future networks, and that integrating expertise aims to enable Europe to design and influence technical standards, thereby safeguarding its sovereignty.

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