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jamienktoday at 1:53 AM1 replyview on HN

https://hugovergnes.github.io/little-lm-3-8b/ << less than $1k for a 4B model

Remember how DeepSeek v.whatever cost ~$5m

Stable Diffusion 1.5 was reportedly $70k in compute.


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hn_throwaway_99today at 5:15 AM

None of those are frontier models, nor could they have been. E.g. DeepSeek's "$5 million" included piggybacking off OpenAI/Anthropic's hundreds of millions/billions by using distillation.