AT&T routes 40% of employee AI usage to open models
Hesamation · x · 2026-08-21
AT&T is routing 40% of employee AI usage to open models, aiming for 60-70%. Their AI chief states open models are "just as good or better" for many tasks. This move cut coding costs by 56% with only a 2% drop in quality, processing 45B tokens daily, while critical tasks still use frontier models.
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