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Bakouch: Megatron's local batching hindered MoE expert specialization
“And they find that, for example, in the Megatron item code base this wasn't the case. This was done as the local batch I think. So it basically means that everyone that is using Megatron at the time of the paper I mean, it wasn't even a paper. It was just a bl…”
Elie Bakouch Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 24:46 ⚡ Open Model Pretraining Masterclass — Elie Bakouch, HuggingFace SmolLM 3, FineWeb, FinePDF
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Parakhin: Bing Sydney first launched in India using Megatron, not OpenAI
“The funny thing, I mean, the most interesting anecdote is that Sydney was first shipped in India for and it was not noticed for a long time. And first implementation of Sydney didn't even have open AI model under it. It was during Megatron. Microsoft and the N…”
Mikhail Parakhin Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 1:10:53 AI-Native Engineering: 100% adoption, 5x search throughput, unlimited tokens — Mikhail Parakhin
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