One developer beat many chatbots on a reasoning test for 67 cents.
Independent developer Mithil Vakde trained a small model from scratch on the ARC-AGI-1 puzzle set. He reports 44 percent on the public evaluation after 90 minutes on a single gaming graphics card. The code is open, and he puts the whole run at about 67 cents of compute.
Why it mattersReasoning gains have looked like something only enormous budgets can buy. A cheap open result suggests the method may matter more than the money.
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