Transforming telecom with AI: Meet OTel 2.0

AT&T, Microsoft, and AMD have released OTel 2.0, an open telecommunications-focused language model available through Featherless that is trained on publicly available industry standards from organizations including 3GPP, ETSI, and the GSMA. Built by post-training the open Gemma 4 model, OTel 2.0 is designed for specialized network-engineering tasks where general-purpose models may be less reliable, and it reportedly led the GSMA Open-Telco benchmark’s TeleLogs troubleshooting task against larger general models. The release is presented as evidence that enterprise AI may increasingly shift toward open, domain-specific models trained on industry knowledge, particularly in sectors with extensive technical documentation and standards. OTel 1.0 was downloaded more than 25 million times, while version 2.0 was trained at production scale using AMD hardware, and Featherless argues that similar specialized models could benefit underrepresented but economically significant fields such as transportation, construction, and agriculture.

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