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AT&T and Microsoft scale trillion-token workloads with Microsoft Foundry and AMD
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
AT&T built Open Telco 2.0, a telecom-domain AI model, using Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute with 530 GPUs (430 AMD MI300X) to process trillion-token workloads across multiple open models including Phi-4, enabling faster iteration and lower costs than traditional infrastructure approaches.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of AI Infrastructure and AI Frontier Models.
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You've just watched a $2bn telecoms operator choose managed GPU over owning infrastructure, and do it faster and cheaper. That's the death knell for captive AI compute—the market is moving to rental, which means you can now build AI products without owning silicon.
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