# Guan Wang's Sapient Says It Trained a 1B-Parameter Model for About $1,500

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/guan-wang-sapient-hrm-text-1500-training-claim>
> Published: 2026-06-10 22:28:40+00:00

Guan Wang, CEO of Sapient Intelligence, is putting a number on a bet that runs against the dominant economics of AI: his researchers say they trained a 1 billion parameter language model from scratch for about $1,500, according to a VentureBeat report published June 10. The claim centers on HRM Text, Sapient Intelligence's language adaptation of a Hierarchical Recurrent Model (HRM) architecture that Sapient first introduced in 2025, according to VentureBeat. Wang's argument is not that enterp...