Li Fei-Fei’s Team Trains AI Model for Under $50, Revolutionizing Industry Standards

The breakthrough innovation by Li Fei-Fei’s team, which successfully trained a new model, S1, with a cloud computing cost of less than $50, has sparked a reevaluation of the development costs associated with artificial intelligence. This achievement is remarkable, given that S1’s performance in mathematical and coding ability tests is comparable to that of top-tier models like OpenAI’s O1 and DeepSeek’s R1. The research, conducted by Li Fei-Fei and her colleagues from Stanford University and the University of Washington, demonstrates that with careful selection of training data and the application of distillation techniques, it is possible to create highly competent AI models at a fraction of the cost typically associated with such endeavors.