DR FERRI ABOLHASSAN
AI IN TELCO
DR FERRI ABOLHASSAN
TITLE: BOARD MEMBER / CEO
COMPANY: DEUTSCHE TELEKOM / T-SYSTEMS
INDUSTRY: TELECOMS
As CEO of T-Systems and a Deutsche Telekom Board Member, Dr Ferri Abolhassan leads global digital transformation strategies. A computer scientist and former SAP executive, he champions European sovereign AI and cloud infrastructure.
“WE ARE PROUD TO BE WORKING ON A PROJECT THAT IS CRUCIAL TO EUROPE’ S FUTURE IN THE FIELD OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”
Dr Ferri Abolhassan, Board member / CEO, Deutsche Telekom / T-Systems as education, medicine, administration and production.”
The 100-billion-parameter scale enables complex reasoning, zero-shot learning and multilingual understanding. The SOOFI consortium will develop a reasoning model on top of the base large language model, allowing analysis of technical, regulatory and organisational contexts.
The L3S Research Center develops multilingual datasets for fine-tuning, safety benchmarks and reward models to strengthen logical capabilities.
Researchers explore neuro-symbolic approaches combining neural networks with structured knowledge graphs to reduce hallucinations. Fraunhofer IAIS leads the development of the training pipeline and optimisation of the tokeniser, leveraging expertise from the OpenGPT-X project.
Dr Nicolas Flores-Herr from Fraunhofer IAIS says:“ SOOFI brings together leading research teams from Germany to train large open-source LLMs, which represent an important area of a sovereign AI value chain.”
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