$1,000-trained HRM-Text shows Sapient bet on recurrence before OpenAI's Astra
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-06
- Sapient introduced its Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) in June 2025 and open-sourced HRM-Text in May.
- The core idea: reasoning can spend compute by repeatedly updating internal state via recurrent loops, rather than relying only on a conventional transformer stack — the same direction OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now pushing into the frontier conversation.
- HRM-Text is a 1B-parameter open-source model pretrained from scratch on just 40B unique tokens for roughly $1,000 in GPU compute, with a full pretraining framework released for others to inspect, retrain, and build on.
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