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AT&T routes 40% of AI requests to open-source models, cutting costs

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AT&T is significantly shifting its AI strategy by routing 40% of employee AI requests through open-source models, with plans to increase this to 60-70%. This move has reduced costs for coding and advanced tasks by up to 56%, with only a minor 2% decrease in output quality. The company is utilizing models from Nvidia, Google's Gemma, and Meta's Llama, and has also fine-tuned a telecom-specific model called OTel 2.0 based on Gemma 4 31B. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates a viable strategy for enterprises to reduce AI operational costs by leveraging open-source models.

RANK_REASON Company's adoption of open-source models for internal AI requests.

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AT&T routes 40% of AI requests to open-source models, cutting costs

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    📡 AT&T now routes 40% of employee AI requests through open source models, with a target of 60 to 70% in the next few years. The pivot cut coding and other advan

    📡 AT&T now routes 40% of employee AI requests through open source models, with a target of 60 to 70% in the next few years. The pivot cut coding and other advanced-task costs by up to 56% while output quality slipped only 2%, using a cache-aware router that sends each query to th…

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