{"id":1026500,"date":"2026-08-06T07:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026500"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:58:08","slug":"bharti-airtel-rolls-out-small-ai-model-for-30000-field-engineers-sees-%e2%82%b930-45-cr-cost-savings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/bharti-airtel-rolls-out-small-ai-model-for-30000-field-engineers-sees-%e2%82%b930-45-cr-cost-savings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharti Airtel rolls out small AI model for 30,000 field engineers, sees \u20b930-45 cr cost savings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel said its nearly 30,000 field engineers are using an in-house AI small language model (SLM) for various applications, which has also led to significant cost savings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;this quarter, we were able to make a meaningful difference in our workmanship across 30,000 field engineers with the help of AI,\u201d Shashwat Sharma, MD &amp; CEO, Airtel India, said during the Q1FY27 post-earnings call with analysts. \u201cWe are putting a small language model, that works on the engineer&#8217;s endpoint device, which is a regular handset.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a breakthrough for the engineering team, which we are using in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel said its nearly 30,000 field engineers are using an in-house AI small language model (SLM) for various applications, which has also led to significant cost savings. \u201c&#8230;this quarter, we were able to make a meaningful difference in our workmanship across 30,000 field engineers with the help of AI,\u201d Shashwat Sharma, MD &amp; CEO, Airtel India, said during the Q1FY27 post-earnings call with analysts. \u201cWe are putting a small language model, that works on the engineer&#8217;s endpoint device, which is a regular handset.\u201d \u201cThis is a breakthrough for the engineering team, which we are using in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026516,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026500\/revisions\/1026516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}