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.

A small team of AI researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington has found a way to train an AI reasoning model for a fraction of the price paid by big corporations that produce widely known products such as ChatGPT.

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

AI researchers from Stanford and the University of Washington have developed a reasoning model, s1, for less than $50 using cloud compute credits. The