# A Cheap Model Beat a Frontier Model at One-Fiftieth the Cost by Emad Mostaque > "We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI’s last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [26:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsdcF7EEvhM&t=1579s) — Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source object:** “We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI’s last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower.” - **Editorial status:** The poster preserves the source-faithful object, including visible bracketed repairs and omissions where present. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] preserves transcript order, speaker attribution, editorial conventions, and the surrounding argument. - **Weekly promotion dossier:** [[research/Weekly Reminder Hunt - 2026-10-02|Weekly Reminder Hunt — October 2, 2026]] records why this object was selected for permanent promotion. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War|The Gigawatt Is the New Measure of War]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Emad Mostaque|Emad Mostaque]] - [[wiki/AI Access|AI Access]] - [[wiki/Compute Scarcity|Compute Scarcity]] - [[wiki/AI Distribution|AI Distribution]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "We took the cheapest DeepSeek model and made it beat OpenAI’s last frontier model using this harness, and the cost is 50 times lower." — Emad Mostaque, Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-mostaque-cheap-model-beat-frontier-model-one-fiftieth ```