SPC backs Deep Cogito: $3.5M to match frontier models
adityaag · x · 2026-08-27
South Park Commons backed Deep Cogito, which trained models up to 600B+ parameters for under $3.5M. Founder Drishan Arora pivoted after Llama 3.1's release, forking open weights and continuing pre-training to prove small teams can align frontier models cheaply, challenging the consensus that billions are required.
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