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

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

Andre Rucker for BIPinterest'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 par…