TinyZero achieves impressive results with minimal resources, raising questions about the cost of AI development.
A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, claims they’ve managed to reproduce the core technology behind DeepSeek’s headline-grabbing AI at a total cost of roughly $30.The news is another twist in a quickly developing narrative about whether building state-of-the-art AI demands colossal budgets or if far more affordable alternatives have been overlooked by tech’s biggest players.
DeepSeek shook the tech world by asserting that training its main model costs merely a few million, substantially less than many U.S. firms spend on AI. According to Pan and his team, it can be done for a mere $30 on a small scale.Still, skeptics have urged caution. Critics point out that DeepSeek’s claimed affordability numbers may not give the complete picture, as the company might be benefiting from alternate resources or distillation techniques from other proprietary models.
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