Tech companies move to open AI models
In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of five topics from last week’s The Pulse issue. Uber: AI costs down 50%Uber managed to blow through its annual AI budget in the first three months of this year, and it wasn’t a surprise to hear, in May, Uber’s COO say that it was getting harder to justify spending on tools like Claude Code without seeing benefits from the leading models.
- ▪In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders.
- ▪Today, we cover one out of five topics from last week’s The Pulse issue.
- ▪Uber: AI costs down 50%Uber managed to blow through its annual AI budget in the first three months of this year, and it wasn’t a surprise to hear, in May, Uber’s COO say that it was getting harder to justify spending on tools like Claude Co
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| Original publisher | The Pragmatic Engineer |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tech-companies-move-to-open-ai-models/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:16:58 +0000 |
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The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we cover one out of five topics from last week’s The Pulse issue. Full subscribers received the article below seven days ago. If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here.In May, I covered an emerging trend of companies wanting to cut back their AI spending, starting with engineering departments.
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