Phison, a leading company in the storage industry, has announced a significant reduction in the cost of AI training and AI tuning with the introduction of a new $50,000 workstation system. This move is a response to the previous high costs associated with fine-tuning a PC for AI applications, which ranged from $1 million to $1.5 million.

Phison's General Manager and President, Michael Wu, highlighted the new system's capabilities during a recent interview with CRN. He explained that the new workstation, equipped with four workstation GPUs and two aiDAPTIV+ SSDs, can perform tasks that previously required a much more expensive setup.

Wu also mentioned Phison's aiDAPTIV+ Pro Suite, a software tool designed to simplify the process of fine-tuning AI models and creating chatbots like ChatGPT. This suite leverages the open-source Llama 3 model from Meta, allowing users to create custom AI solutions.

Phison's aiDAPTIVE+ Pro Suite is part of a larger software upgrade for their aiADAPTIVCache AI100 SSD, which provides all the necessary tools for on-premises data processing, training on very large language models (LLMs), and adding a chat interface to engage with the data.