AT&T slashes Anthropic costs by up to 90% with aggressive open source AI pivot

AT&T slashes Anthropic costs by up to 90% with aggressive open source AI pivot

AT&T cuts AI costs 80–90% from Anthropic, targeting 70–80% of 45B daily tokens on open-source models. Data sovereignty and cost reshape enterprise AI procurement: on-premise open models eliminate vendor lock-in and proprietary data exposure, forcing strategic IT reallocation.