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That's not happening without significant funding. The cost of the primary training run for frontier models is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Astra pre-train likely cost close to a billion dollars.

The Chinese open-source models (which are 1-2 generations behind the frontier) cost in the low tens of millions to train. This is largely because of a lack of compute. They achieve comparable performance to frontier models via distillation.

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