Imbue - training a 70B model from scratch! (w/ Bowei - head of infra)

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Become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE Bowei joined us from Imbue to talk about Imbue's latest endeavor: building the infra to support a 70B model training! They wrote up an amazing blog post with a lot of details describing the grind that was needed to set everything up from scratch. :) β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Blog post: https://imbue.com/research/70b-infrastructure/ (From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts) β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 - 00:45 Intro 00:45 - 02:25 Hyperstack GPUs (sponsored) 02:25 - 11:30 Bowei's background 11:30 - 18:30 More on Imbue, their research, their focus 18:30 - 26:20 Training a 70B model 26:20 - 45:40 Building a cluster from scratch 45:40 - 59:25 Anecdotes, Q&A β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ’° SPONSOR The AI Epiphany - https://www.patreon.com/theaiepiphany One-time donation - https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/theaiepiphany Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler Petar VeličkoviΔ‡ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ’Ό LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ Discord - https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE πŸ“Ί YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEpiphany/ πŸ“š Medium - https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ πŸ’» GitHub - https://github.com/gordicaleksa πŸ“’ AI Newsletter - https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ #imbue #infra #70b #llm

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