Google's new SEED RL framework reduces AI model training costs by 80% - SiliconANGLE

Researchers at Google have open-sourced a new framework that can scale up artificial intelligence model training across thousands of machines. It's a promising development because it should enable AI algorithm training to be performed at millions of frames per second while reducing the costs of doing so by as much as 80%, Google noted in a research paper. That kind of reduction could help to level the playing field a bit for startups that previously haven't been able to compete with major players such as Google in AI. Indeed, the cost of training sophisticated machine learning models in the cloud is surprisingly expensive. One recent report by Synced found that the University of Washington racked up $25,000 in costs to train its Grover model, which is used to detect and generate fake news.