Supersonic Labs Releases Julia-1 Classification Model Trained for US$104
Classification models are getting a second life because agent builders now need cheap, fast routing and gating alongside large reasoning models. Hybrid System One plus System Two setups can beat frontier-only pipelines on domain-specific tasks, so the practical move is to build a harness and evals to test where a classifier suffices. Julia-1's roughly US$104 training bill shows how low the barrier to experimenting has become.
