Highly misleading. They finetuned an existing model using a different existing model in a process called distillation.

The article is effectively saying “our model only cost $50 to make, plus whatever tens or hundreds of millions of dollars the models we stole from cost.”

That’s rookie numbers I trained one in 1min with $1!

How long before congress bans this one too

Trained it to do very basic arithmetic tasks, not to rival OpenAI.