AT&T Is Betting Big on Open-Weight AI for Cost Savings

AT&T is a big telecom company that wants to use artificial intelligence, or AI.

It is 'betting big' on something called open-weight AI models.

Open-weight models are AI programs that companies can freely use and change.

One big advantage is that AT&T can run these models on its own computers in its own data centers.

That means it does not have to rent computers from a cloud-computing provider.

Renting computers from the cloud can be expensive.

By using its own hardware, AT&T can make its AI costs smaller.

An AT&T official named Markus says that in the future the company will likely use a mix of cloud-hosted AI models and open models.

So AT&T hopes to get the benefits of AI while spending less money.