A 4B Model Beat Postgres by 81 Percent: What a $1,200 Training Run Means for Philippine AI

In August 2026, the Department of Science and Technology earmarked PHP 300 million in grant-in-aid seed funding to expand its AI data centers (Source: Inquirer, 2026). One month earlier, a researcher on two second-hand RTX 3090s trained a 4-billion-parameter model that produced database query plans 81 percent faster than Postgres, for a total...