Inside Pinterest's efforts to replace expensive AI with open-source models

Andre Rucker for BI Pinterest's VP of product management said mixing open-source and closed-source AI models helped cut costs. The social platform's recent AI-enabled features combine OpenAI, Alibaba, and its own AI models. To support this approach, Pinterest invested in cloud infrastructure and an updated hiring strategy. In its pursuit of creating AI-supported tools for its users and advertisers, Pinterest leaders said it is actually shrinking part of its AI budget. As companies continue ...