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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
That would only be a valid comparison if the american brand dehumidifier, as a complete product, was a part of the chinese one's bill of materials. This is closer to the cartoon meme image where McGuyver builds a megaphone out of a squirrel, twigs, and a megaphone.