Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost-Effectiveness

Sky-T1: Train your own O1 preview model within $450 (novasky-ai.github.io)
We introduce Sky-T1-32B-Preview, our reasoning model that performs on par with o1-preview on popular reasoning and coding benchmarks. Remarkably, Sky-T1-32B-Preview was trained for less than $450, demonstrating that it is possible to replicate high-level reasoning capabilities affordably and efficiently. All code is open-source.
Commercial Opportunities in a Renaissance of Self-Hosting (johnys.io)
The accessibility, performance, and cost-effectiveness of self-hosting today are fascinating. You can buy commodity hardware at one-tenth the annual cost of renting it on Amazon Web Services, connect it smoothly to the public internet behind a residential IP with Cloudflare Tunnels or Tailscale, and seamlessly deploy with a host of solutions from a mature Docker ecosystem to DHH’s Kamal. For a total cost of several hundred dollars, I now have about $15,000 of annual AWS compute running in my basement.
OpenPipe Mixture of Agents: Outperform GPT-4 at 1/25th the Cost (openpipe.ai)
How I dubbed a 16-second video with lip sync for $0.50 using open-source models (union.ai)