AI on a Budget: Stanford & UW Train a Smart Model for Under $50
Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington pulled off a wild AI upgrade on a shoestring budget. They took an Alibaba AI model, tweaked it, and used distillation (think of it like compressing knowledge into a smaller, smarter package). The result? A reasoning model trained for less than a nice dinner out. This shows that cutting-edge AI doesn't always need deep pockets—just smart tweaks.