AI: $50 reasoning model

 New AI Reasoning Model Rivaling OpenAI Trained on Less Than $50 in Compute

S1 model: researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington trained the “reasoning” model using less than $50 in cloud compute credits.

S1 is a direct competitor to OpenAI’s o1, which is called a reasoning model because it produces answers to prompts by “thinking” through related questions that might help it check its work.

According to TechCrunch, S1 is based on an off-the-shelf language model, which was taught to reason by studying questions and answers from a Google model, Gemini 2.0 Flashing Thinking Experimental

a relatively small amount of training data—1,000 curated questions, along with the answers—and teach it to mimic Gemini’s thinking process.