One of Türkiye's leading telecoms and tech companies, Turkcell, sees artificial intelligence as no longer just a race over models but increasingly a competition over infrastructure, its CEO Ali Taha Koç said.
Koç was speaking at the AI for Good Global Summit organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), where he outlined Turkcell's investments across five key layers of the AI ecosystem.
Koç said the future of artificial intelligence would depend on countries and companies' ability to build strong and independent digital infrastructure.
"Artificial intelligence is no longer a matter of models; it is a matter of infrastructure. Whoever controls the infrastructure will shape the future," he said. "If AI is the key to a strong digital future, the future of AI depends on robust and independent infrastructure."
Technology, mobile communications and AI leaders gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, from Tuesday through Friday for the U.N.-backed ITU summit, where Koç participated in two separate sessions on the transformation of the technology sector.
