Standard Intelligence's co-founder Devansh Pandey says the company's use of "Mithril", an omnicloud platform, allowed them to train a textless conversational audio base model for under $200,000, significantly reducing the cost of reserving multi-year AI compute capacity. Mithril is designed to aggregate distributed capacity from cloud providers and data centers into a single marketplace, maximizing price-performance while simplifying infrastructure management. The platform has gained support from prominent AI leaders such as Cursor, LG AI Research, and Arc Institute, enabling them to focus on advancing AI rather than negotiating for compute resources.