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Oxford’s New AI Optimizer Cuts Training Costs by 80% and Speeds Up 7x

Everyone's talking about Oxford's FOP optimizer—7x faster training and 80% cheaper runs—but the real opportunity is bigger than GPUs, budgets, and this quarter.
Most teams will rush to spend less on GPUs.
But they’ll miss the chance to change how they build, prioritize, and ship.
The winners will translate speed into compounding product advantage.
FOP treats noisy gradients as useful signals.
It learns where training is stuck and adjusts course quickly.
That means you can test bigger ideas, fail faster, and keep what works.
The truth is speed only matters if you change your decisions today.
Example: A mid-size team cut a 7-day training job to 24 hours and lowered cost from about $100,000 to near $20,000.
They shipped a stronger model two sprints earlier and closed a six-figure pilot.
↓ Turn speed into advantage in four simple moves.
• Re-score your roadmap by experiments per dollar, not features per quarter.
• Set a weekly model cadence: train, review, deploy small, learn.
• Reinvest savings into exploration: use 50% of savings to run 2x more tests.
↳ Block 30 minutes today to choose your next three experiments.
⚡ In 90 days this shift can compound.
Teams that work this way often see cycle time cut and win rates climb.
What would you build if training became 7x faster and 80% cheaper?

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