GTR-Turbo: Slash Vision AI Training Costs 60% Using Merged Checkpoints as Your Free Teacher

Beyond Costly APIs: Using Your Own Training Checkpoints as a Free Teacher for Vision AI Agents Have you ever struggled with training a vision AI agent for multi-turn decision-making? Perhaps you’re teaching an AI to play the card game “24” or complete tasks in a simulated home. The reinforcement learning (RL) process often stalls—the model learns slowly, or worse, its “thinking” collapses into repetitive, meaningless outputs. Traditionally, the solution involved hiring a “tutor”—a much larger, more powerful AI model like GPT-4 or Gemini to guide the agent at every step. While effective, this approach came with a steep price: days …