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OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT

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OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT is a telecom-specialized instruction model post-trained from Gemma 4 31B-IT on approximately 440 billion telecom training tokens. It is the first release in the OTel 2.0 family and is designed to support telco-grade AI workflows across network operations, standards interpretation, product development, network configuration assistance, RAG, and telecom-specific question answering.

OTel 2.0 extends the original OTel effort from a RAG-oriented telecom fine-tuning release into a larger domain-adapted training program. The model was trained from a much larger standards and telecom corpus, with new data preparation coverage for agentic tool calling, direct telecom QnA, instruction following, abstention, RAG, and base-model-style training data.

Release Status

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Model Details

Attribute Value
Base model Gemma 4 31B-IT
Parameters 31B
Model family OTel 2.0
Training method Telecom domain post-training / instruction tuning
Raw telecom corpus ~15B tokens from GSMA through Open Telco AI
Processed data volume ~1T tokens processed using Red Hat SDG Hub
Training tokens ~440B
Compute for data processing ~530 GPUs through Azure Managed Compute, primarily MI300X
Model training infrastructure On-prem AMD MI355X with Dell servers
Day 0 inference availability Microsoft Foundry, Featherless AI, and Red Hat
Language English

Model Lineage

Gemma 4 31B-IT -> OTel 2.0 telecom data processing and post-training -> OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT

What Changed From OTel 1.0

Category Metric OTel 1.0 OTel 2.0
Tokens Raw documents ~600M ~15B
Tokens Training ~1B ~440B
Data preparation Agentic tool calling No Yes
Data preparation Knowledge / fact direct QnA No Yes
Data preparation RAG Yes Yes
Data preparation Abstention Yes Yes
Data preparation Instruction following No Yes
Data preparation Base model training set No Yes

Relative to OTel 1.0, OTel 2.0 increases raw source coverage by roughly 25x and training-token volume by roughly 440x. More importantly, the data mixture is broader: OTel 1.0 focused primarily on context-grounded RAG and abstention, while OTel 2.0 adds direct telecom knowledge QnA, instruction following, tool-use-oriented examples, and base-model-style telecom training data.

Training Data

The starting corpus contains approximately 15 billion raw tokens provided by GSMA through Open Telco AI. The corpus includes telecom standards and technical material from seven standards development and industry organizations:

Source family Examples
Cellular standards 3GPP
Telecom standards and specifications ETSI, ITU
Industry and operator materials GSMA
Network API specifications CAMARA
Open RAN specifications O-RAN
Telecom business and operations frameworks TM Forum

The raw corpus was processed into approximately 1 trillion tokens using Red Hat SDG Hub on Azure Managed Compute, using approximately 530 GPUs, primarily AMD MI300X. From this processed pool, approximately 440 billion training tokens were generated for OTel 2.0 post-training.

Data Preparation Capabilities

OTel 2.0 includes a broader supervised and synthetic-data mixture than OTel 1.0:

Capability Description
RAG Context-grounded telecom answer generation from retrieved standards and technical documents
Abstention Training examples that teach the model to avoid answering when context is missing, irrelevant, or insufficient
Direct telecom QnA Knowledge and factual question-answer pairs for standards, protocols, services, and network concepts
Instruction following Telecom-specific instructions for analysis, summarization, transformation, and operational support tasks
Agentic tool calling Examples intended to improve tool-use behavior in telecom AI workflows

Intended Use

OTel-2.0-LLM-31B-IT is intended for telecom-focused applications where domain knowledge, standards familiarity, and deployment control matter. Suitable use cases include:

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation over telecom standards, specifications, and internal technical documentation.
  • Standards interpretation and summarization for 3GPP, ETSI, GSMA, CAMARA, ITU, O-RAN, and TM Forum materials.
  • Product development, network configuration assistance, and engineering support tasks.
  • Telecom-specific direct QnA where the model has been separately evaluated for the target benchmark or application.
  • Agentic workflows where a larger system provides verified tools, retrieval, validation, and audit logging.

For high-impact operational use, the model should be deployed with retrieval, source attribution, validation checks, and human review appropriate to the system risk.

Limitations and Responsible Use

  • OTel 2.0 is domain-specific to telecommunications and should not be treated as a general-purpose model for unrelated fields.
  • Telecom standards evolve over time; answers should be checked against the relevant document version and release.
  • Agentic tool calling requires an external tool runtime, tool schema validation, permissioning, logging, and safeguards. The model alone does not guarantee safe tool execution.
  • RAG quality depends on document ingestion, chunking, retrieval, reranking, prompt design, and source freshness.
  • Direct QnA behavior should be evaluated separately from RAG behavior; strong performance in one setting does not imply strong performance in the other.

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Project Resources

Contributors and Organizations

Named contributors for this release include Farbod Tavakkoli, Gregory Diamos, Jorden Terrazas, Roderic Paulk, and Japa Sharath.

Organizations involved in the OTel 2.0 release and supporting infrastructure include AT&T, Microsoft, Dell, AMD, Red Hat, and GSMA.

Citation

@misc{otel_2_models_2026,
  title  = {OTel 2.0: Open Telco AI Datasets, Benchmarks, and Models},
  author = {Tavakkoli, Farbod and Diamos, Gregory and Terrazas, Jorden and Paulk, Roderic and Sharath, Japa and others},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Open Telco (OTel 2.0) model release},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/farbodtavakkoli},
  organization = {AT\&T, Microsoft, Dell, AMD, Red Hat, GSMA}
}

Contact

For technical questions, contact farbod.tavakkoli@att.com or farbodtavakoli@gmail.com.

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