AI in Norway

Norway-based eSmart Systems integrated over 30 Ultralytics YOLO computer vision models into its Grid Vision® platform, deployed across 70+ utilities globally. The system has inspected more than 100,000 kilometers of power lines, reducing inspection time by 50% and enabling shift from reactive to condition-based maintenance.

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) manages Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund with $1.7 trillion in assets. The scale of their operation demands processing enormous volumes of investment data, research reports, regulatory filings, and multilingual news every day.

IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, has announced a strategic partnership with 1X Technologies to jointly industrialize humanoid robotics for asset-intensive industries. The collaboration will combine 1X's humanoid robots with IFS.ai to develop and deploy production-ready robotics solutions alongside select customers across manufacturing, utilities, aviation, and other industrial settings. The partnership creates a unified digital-physical operational environment where intelligent robots work directly within enterprise business processes. By integrating humanoids with IFS.ai, IFS and 1X will deliver solutions that close the loop from physical execution to business intelligence, enabling real-time orchestration of robotic operations and seamless data flow between physical work and enterprise systems. The integrated solutions will be showcased to IFS customers globally, with commercial availability planned for 2026.

Telenor, one of Scandinavia's largest telecommunications providers, has deployed AI and machine learning across its network infrastructure to optimize coverage, reduce churn, and improve customer experience in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. The company's AI-powered network analytics platform ingests millions of network performance metrics in real time, using anomaly detection algorithms to identify and diagnose faults before they impact customers.

Use of artificial intelligence saved Equinor USD 130 million in 2025. AI is a central part of Equinor's operations. Moving forward, AI will become even more important for solving industrial tasks safely, faster, more profitably, and at scale. With AI, Equinor can analyse seismic data ten times faster, plan wells and field development in new and better ways and operate facilities more efficiently.