AT&T routes 40% of employee AI to open models, cuts costs 56%
Hesamation · x · 2026-08-21
AT&T's AI chief revealed that 40% of employee AI usage is currently routed to open models, with plans to increase this to 60-70%. This shift reduced coding costs by 56% with only a 2% drop in quality, processing around 45B tokens daily. While critical tasks still use frontier models, the official stated open models are "just as good or better" for many tasks, illustrating the competitive pressure facing OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise sector.
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