Analysis: AT&T bets on routing, open model to tame AI costs

AT&T has deployed a proprietary AI gateway using cache-aware routing to cut inference costs by up to 90%, and released OTel 2.0, an open-source telecom-specific model trained on 400+ billion tokens, to address accuracy demands at scale across its 45 billion daily token processing.

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