Sferical One: Ericsson and partners make AI supercomputing a reality in Sweden
Ericsson is among several major Swedish companies who have started to utilize a new sovereign AI supercomputer in Sweden, called Sferical One, officially launched today by the Sferical AI initiative.
As a founding member of Sferical AI - alongside AstraZeneca, Saab, SEB and Wallenberg Investments, with SKF as a strategic partner - Ericsson gains access to secure, sovereign Swedish computing capacity to develop, deliver, and deploy advanced AI solutions alongside the partner companies.
The initiative aims to deliver direct societal benefits to Sweden as AI use case momentum gathers pace. Shared use of investment, capacity and expertise under the Sferical AI initiative means the partners can scale AI development faster.
Ericsson will contribute telecom expertise, drive AI use cases, and jointly develop a secure, sovereign AI platform, while simultaneously using the platform to further develop Ericsson’s own network and automation capabilities.
The system is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD built on NVIDIA DGX GB300 systems. The system has been running since late summer 2026. Sferical AI will also build services based on NVIDIA Nemotron open multimodal AI models.
Today’s event was attended by senior executives from Sferical AI, the Swedish partner companies, including Ericsson President and CEO, Per Narvinger, and Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang.
Ericsson CTO, Erik Ekudden, who led Ericsson's co-development of Sferical from inception, says: “I envision the future as a 6G/AI intelligent fabric - a universal framework which enables different AI systems to work together securely and with reliable performance, no matter where they are or who built them. Ensuring a robust and secure infrastructure requires best in class AI models. To build those, we need the best compute infrastructure. Through our cooperation with Sferical we get access to sovereign infrastructure for model training and refinement.”
Addressing the partner companies at the Sferical One launch, Jensen Huang predicted an exciting future. "You have done the hardest part ... you have started," he said.
Ericsson’s Sferical One engagement to date relates to ensuring secure and reliable networks through AI-based network operations.
L-R: Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Wallenberg Investments; Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, Nvidia; Per Narvinger, President and CEO, Ericsson; Jan Carlson, Chairman of the Board, Ericsson, at the Sferical One launch, Stockholm, October 15, 2026.
Jenny Nordlöw, CEO, Sferical AI, says: “Sferical One enables the companies to train and run AI models at a larger scale on a sovereign platform. What makes Sferical unique isn’t just the technology, but that several of Sweden’s largest companies share the same infrastructure, develop solutions together and share knowledge across industries.”
Marcus Wallenberg, Chair of Wallenberg Investments, says: “AI will be a critical component of Swedish industry’s future competitiveness. Sferical One will help some of Sweden’s leading companies stay at the forefront of that development. It is a long-term investment in the capabilities and expertise we will need to compete in the future.”
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