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Analysis: AT&T bets on routing, open model to tame AI costs
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Fusion42 · 28 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
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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AT&T just proved that cheap, task-matched inference beats frontier models on real infrastructure costs. If you sell AI infrastructure, routing layers, or domain models to telcos or large enterprises running high-token-volume workloads, the 90% cost cut changes your customer's buying decision: they now need you to plug into their gateway, not replace it.
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