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Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50 (www.theverge.com)
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[–] cyd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The underlying research story is interesting, but the way it's written up actively makes it worse.

The researchers based s1 on Qwen2.5, an open-source model from Alibaba Cloud.

Watch me create a racing car for less than $50. Step 1: start with a Mercedes F1 racer...