AT&T receives 40 million customer service calls annually, requiring efficient categorization and analysis to prevent customer churn.Initially using the costly ChatGPT for call sorting, AT&T switched to a cheaper, faster open-source AI system developed in-house.The open-source solution, composed of multiple smaller models, reduced costs to 35% of the ChatGPT setup with increased processing speed.AT&T's shift to open-source AI demonstrates improved efficiency and cost-effectiveness in managing customer service calls.