{
  "id": 1878359,
  "title": "Companies with huge datasets can save up to 80% in AI costs by using open-weight models: Hims CEO",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/companies-with-huge-datasets-can-save-up-to-80-in-ai-costs-by-using",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-19T05:38:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/hims-hers-ceo-andrew-dudum-datasets-ai-costs-open-weight-2026-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum stated that companies with substantial internal data can save up to 80% on AI costs by implementing open-weight models. This cost-saving strategy is a hot topic in the tech industry as businesses seek to optimize their AI spending. Open-weight models, which allow users to access and modify a model's trained parameters, can be more affordable to operate at scale and often deliver better performance when trained on a company's specific use cases. Dudum emphasized that companies possessing a sizable closed-loop dataset of their patients, as is the case for his telehealth provider, can leverage this valuable asset to train AI models efficiently.",
  "summary": "He said big patient datasets are Hims & Hers' \"real asset,\" as they can be used to train open-weight models.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}