AI on a Budget: UC Berkeley's $30 Breakthrough
jiayi pan and his team at uc berkeley just pulled off something wild—they recreated deepseek’s r1-zero model for only $30. their open-source version, "tinyzero," challenges the idea that cutting-edge ai needs big tech’s billion-dollar budgets. this could shake up the industry, making ai research way more accessible. if high-performance ai can run on pocket change, what does that mean for the future of big ai companies?