11X cheaper than ChatGPT: Tiny 150M model just proved AI doesn't need to "think out loud" to be smart

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A 150M model reached 29.5% while costing just $0.0007 per task ChatGPT scored higher, yet its comparable reasoning runs cost substantially more BDH-CQ performs reasoning internally instead of generating lengthy intermediate text Pathway, an AI lab focused on building Post-Transformer architectures, has released…

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