Researchers say they trained a foundation model from scratch for about $1,500
Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:33:42 GMT
Ben Dickson
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 …