Training cost $ 3.47 million....

Staggeringly low for a frontier model.

This figure doesn't include pretraining cost. Which is probably higher.

that is just for the RL

The actual research says something far less clickworthy. Are Stanford's PR dribbles now created by LLMs ?

"Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain

Abstract When and how different brain regions diversify from one another remains unresolved.

Does a common neural ectoderm progenitor generate the entire brain? Or do multiple neural ectoderm progenitors exist, each restricted to form specific brain regions?

Here our lineage tracing studies of mouse embryos support the latter model. Two parallel brain progenitors emerge simultaneously during gastrulation: anterior neural ectoderm (forebrain/midbrain progenitor) and posterior neural ectoderm (hindbrain progenitor). Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into anterior or posterior neural ectoderm-like cells revealed these were lineage committed to forebrain/midbrain versus hindbrain fates, respectively. They harbored diverging chromatin landscapes foreshadowing future forebrain/midbrain versus hindbrain identities. We further differentiated human pluripotent stem cells into hindbrain rhombomere 5/6-specific motor neurons, which were hitherto difficult to generate in vitro.

Hence, we postulate the brain is a composite organ emanating from two lineage-restricted progenitors; these dual progenitors may be evolutionarily conserved across 550 million years from hemichordates to mammals."

I think it's very interesting news. We've known about the brain's separate parts, and separate functions for a while. It was always assumed our evolution of the brain was neatly, and tidily tucked away as somethat that branches off a singular thing. A single step from the pluripotent, 'infinitely renewable' stem cell into another single progenitor.

This suggested a sequence of events, causes and effects, that somehow our minds today can be evolved from a singular 'step' within growth. Only our brains seems have this requirement.

So this requirement, in and of itself, is interesting and newsworthy. For whatever purposes, it's 2 separate systems that many living organisms evolve in the same way. It's 2 steps, for some physical reason.

Tabloid like headline...

Pity about the dumbed down for dummies, fake marketing from Stanford.

Ubuntu continues on it's quixotic mission to kill Linux...

Depending on your religion, God speaks:

Sankrit,

Avestan ,

Classical Mandaic,

Hebrew,

the Arabic in the Hijazi dialect of 6th century Arabia,

Punjabi

or Ardhamagadhi.

Or Japanese

Or C99, ISO/IEC 9899:1999

HolyC in 640x480

They are welcome to make stuff that nobody wants. Weird designs, made poorly and disintegrating in months.

But then the share price drops.

ie: the market capitalisation drops.

They then have to pay more money to borrow.

Fewer investors are interested in giving them money.

The business spirals into irrelevance like Ken Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation.

Restructuring happens

Employees lose jobs.

Restructuring happens again and again and again.

Employees lose jobs, more jobs and still more jobs.

Unpaid suppliers go bankrupt.

Finally they shut down and become an irrelevance like Nike, 777 Partners, DEC, BioXcel Therapeutics, Lycos, First Brands Group, Yahoo.

Is Nike the Intel of shoe makers? A faded former giant that has major operations in Oregon.

Hopefully the execs get a nice golden parachute at least. Wouldn’t want them to face any consequences for their actions.

I can see many mathematics PhD candidates leaving in the aftermath of this.

And math undergraduate and graduate courses withering from lack of applicants and lack of funding .

Of course the next question the despicable AI money grubbers will come out with is, "Do we really need mathematicians ?"

Easy solution .... The corporation will pay Trump a billion dollars for his next bout of vandalism of America's institutions .

And his slave Supreme Court lackeys will immediately give OpenAI perpetual immunity to any litigation arising from this or any other matters .

Waiting for the deluge of Rust cultists....