Pinterest Earnings: Open Models Cost Under 8% of Closed Alternatives

juliey4 · x · 2026-08-10

During its latest earnings call, Pinterest revealed striking data on enterprise AI costs: open-source models post-trained on their proprietary data cost under 8% per transaction compared to comparable closed models.

The CEO stated bluntly that any CEO not taking advantage of open-source models is almost certainly wasting shareholders' money, highlighting the massive cost-efficiency of customized open models in production.

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