Artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially transform networking, where the operational model has largely remained static for decades, but AI needs to be native in the network versus an overlay. The difference between AI-driven and AI-native networks is fundamentally about integrating AI into the system’s architecture. AI-driven networks improve existing infrastructure with AI, while AI-native networks are built from scratch with AI at the core. The latter is more transformative, similar to cloud-native applications designed for the cloud from the start.
