AT&T & Tech Mahindra Launch Acumos: An Open‑Source AI Platform for Rapid Deployment

AT&T and Tech Mahindra have teamed up to release Acumos, a fully open‑source Artificial Intelligence platform hosted by The Linux Foundation. Acumos is designed to simplify the entire AI lifecycle—building, sharing, and deploying AI micro‑services—through a unified marketplace.

AT&T stresses that today’s AI solutions often remain siloed within the organizations that built them. By open‑sourcing Acumos, the company aims to lower the entry barrier for developers and operators alike, enabling faster innovation that can keep pace with rising customer demand.

In its announcement, AT&T describes Acumos as an extensible framework that lets users edit, integrate, compose, package, train, and deploy machine‑learning services. As Dawn Bushaus, managing editor at TM Forum, notes, “Acumos acts as an AI marketplace where components can be chained to create sophisticated applications.”

For instance, a video‑analytics developer could start with Acumos’s ready‑made models for facial recognition and location tracking. The platform’s intuitive interface automatically stitches these components into a single application, reducing code overhead and accelerating time to market.

“Our mission is to make building and deploying AI as simple as creating a website,” says Mazin Gilbert, vice president of Advanced Technology at AT&T Labs. “By partnering with Tech Mahindra, we’re setting an industry standard for AI in networking and inviting the global community to help shape a harmonized future for AI‑driven services.”

Acumos is powered by AT&T’s Indigo platform, which delivers a seamless network experience, while Tech Mahindra focuses on simplifying AI adoption for enterprises. Raman Abrol, senior vice president & Strategic Business Unit head at Tech Mahindra, adds: “Together, we’ll help enterprises re‑imagine business models, unlock data potential, and accelerate industrialised AI deployment.”

AT&T’s commitment to open source isn’t new—earlier this year the company released its ECOMP system to the community and leveraged it to launch the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) for virtualised network orchestration. With Acumos, AT&T is moving the initial framework to the public domain as quickly as possible, giving developers a head start on building next‑generation AI services.

The author of this blog is Dawn Bushaus, managing editor at TM Forum.