AT&T routes 40% of AI traffic to open models, cutting coding costs by 56%
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-21
AT&T is routing 40% of employee AI usage to open models, aiming for 60-70%. The AI chief states open models are "just as good or better" for many tasks. This strategy cut coding costs by 56% with only a 2% quality drop, processing 45 billion tokens daily. Frontier models are still reserved for critical work.
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