Open Telco AI: Training a Model for an Industry
Red Hat, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Red Hat covers OTel 2.0, the telecom-focused open model that has passed 5 million downloads since release.
Domain-specific AI is becoming a practical priority for telecommunications. At AMD Advancing AI, AT&T Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Legg joined AMD's Dan McNamara, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compute and Enterprise AI, to introduce OTel 2.0 and show how telecom-focused models are moving toward production network use.
Adoption underscores the momentum: OTel 2.0 has already surpassed 5 million downloads since release, following nearly 30 million downloads of the OTel 1.0 models. The post covers the work of bringing together Red Hat, AT&T, AMD, Dell and Microsoft to train a model for an entire industry.