Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have developed a model that performs comparably to OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek R1 models in math and coding — for less than $50 of cloud compute credits.

It's cheap to copy already built models from their outputs, but likely still expensive to train new models that push the boundaries.

A team of researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington have developed an AI reasoning model, s1, for less than $50. This is a massive achievement, given the notion that significant financial resources are essential for developing AI reasoning models.