S8 E4 - How AT&T and GSMA are building AI for telecom networks

AI is moving fast in telecom — but turning demos into real network operations is another story. In this episode of The Five Nine, AT&T’s Mark Austin and GSMA’s Louis Powell break down what it takes to build AI that actually understands telecom networks, from domain-specific models and agentic systems to guardrails, model routing, token economics and the hard reality of running AI at production scale.