Pinterest cuts AI costs 90% by gutting Qwen3-VL's vision layer

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Pinterest CTO Matt Madrigal's team cut image recommendation costs by 90% and boosted accuracy 30% by replacing Qwen3-VL's vision layer with proprietary embeddings. The move was driven by the infeasibility of calling a frontier model for every image recommendation at 620 million monthly users.

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12 days ago