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.”
while absolutely true, the same can be said about my chinese nonsensename companys dehumidifier that I bought for 1/4 of the cost of an american brand name one
It's pretty much how the global economy has worked for a few decades, right? Advanced countries design, research and run things, developing countries build them.
I'm not really sure what it has to do with OP, though.
That's rookie numbers I trained one in 1min with $1!
Trained it to do very basic arithmetic tasks, not to rival OpenAI.
How long before congress bans this one too