{"id":232164,"date":"2026-02-26T21:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/8-billion-tokens-a-day-forced-att-to-rethink-ai-orchestration-and-cut-costs-by-90"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:07:21","slug":"8-billion-tokens-a-day-forced-att-to-rethink-ai-orchestration-and-cut-costs-by-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/8-billion-tokens-a-day-forced-att-to-rethink-ai-orchestration-and-cut-costs-by-90","title":{"rendered":"8 billion tokens a day forced AT&amp;T to rethink AI orchestration \u2014 and cut costs by 90%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-billion-tokens-a-day-forced-att-to-rethink-ai-orchestration-and-cut-costs-by-90.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T\u2019s chief data officer shares how rearchitecting around small language models and multi-agent stacks cut AI costs by 90% at 8 billion tokens a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T\u2019s chief data officer shares how rearchitecting around small language models and multi-agent stacks cut AI costs by 90% at 8 billion tokens a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}