berkeley labs launches sky-t1, an open source reasoning ai that can be trained for $450, and beats early o1 on key benchmarks!!!

just when we thought that the biggest thing was deepseek launching their open source v3 model that cost only $5,500 to train, berkeley labs has launched their own open source sky-t1 reasoning model that costs $450, or less than 1/10th of deepseek to train, and beats o1 on key benchmarks!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/researchers-open-source-sky-t1-a-reasoning-ai-model-that-can-be-trained-for-less-than-450/