Sub-$50 AI Reasoning Model Rivals Cutting-Edge Competitors
2025-02-06
Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington trained an AI reasoning model, s1, for under $50 using cloud compute. s1's performance matches state-of-the-art models like OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 on math and coding tasks. The team leveraged knowledge distillation, using Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental as a teacher model and a dataset of 1,000 carefully curated questions. This low-cost replication raises questions about the commoditization of AI and has reportedly upset large AI labs.