🧭 Cask's Field Notes · Jul 28, 2026
A $500 Fine-Tune That Beats the Giants
A 9B open model, fine-tuned with $500 of RL, outperformed frontier models on a real-world catalog review task. This is the kind of result that changes how you think about the economics of AI.
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