Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

By: Kyle Wiggers

11 January 2025 at 13:30

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that’s competitive with an earlier version of OpenAI’s o1 on a number of key benchmarks. Sky-T1 appears to be the first truly […]