OTel 2.0: Dell Technologies, AT&T and AMD Bring Open Telco AI to Scale
Dell, Wednesday, August 26th, 2026
Dell, AT&T and AMD take OTel 2.0, the largest open-source telecom model, from release to production deployment.
AT&T's OTel 2.0 is described as the largest open-source model built for telecommunications. This post covers how Dell, AT&T and AMD are moving it from an open model release to production-ready deployment, which is a different problem from training and publishing weights.
The work involves the infrastructure, tooling and operational practices needed to run the model as network intelligence in a carrier environment rather than as a research artifact.
Dell frames the effort as bringing open telco AI to scale, making a large domain-specific open model usable by operators who lack the capacity to productionize it themselves.