Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500

VentureBeat
Jun 10, 2026, 5:52 pm124 pts
Training a foundation LLM from scratch costs millions and requires internet-scale data — which is why most enterprises don't bother. Sapient thinks it has a cheaper path. To overcome this brute-force scaling dogma, researchers at Sapient developed HRM-Text, which replaces standard Transformers with a highly…

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