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

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Blog post: imbue.com/research/70b-infrastructure (From bare metal to a 70B model: infrastructure set-up and scripts)
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⌚️ 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

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