Yi-Lightning
Closed MoE model that tied for third among companies on LMSYS Chatbot Arena in October 2024, priced near $0.14 per million tokens.
01.AI's last frontier-class run before it stopped pretraining in March 2025 to sell customized solutions built on DeepSeek models (per Wikipedia). Wikipedia also cites reports of about $3M and 2,000 GPUs for training its models.
- Date
- 2024-10
- Lab
- 01.AI
- Kind
- model
- Access
- closed API
Figures
| Measure | Value | Measured by |
|---|---|---|
| Inference price | $0.14 per M tokens vs GPT o1-mini $0.26 per Wikipedia | company |
Single secondary source (Wikipedia); I could not open the original Yi-Lightning announcement, the LMSYS ranking or the cited cost reports.
Sources
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