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NVIDIA releases Megatron-Turing NLG
Microsoft and NVIDIA jointly train a 530-billion-parameter dense language model.
What happened
Event details
NVIDIA released Megatron-Turing NLG on October 11, 2021. The model has 530B parameters, is closed source and is classified as an autoregressive Transformer; the official Megatron-Turing NLG 530B technical release is the primary source.
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A model release or availability milestone with a documented capability or access condition.
45/100Global significance score. Regional effects are recorded only when the evidence supports a meaningful difference.
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Presented through Microsoft and NVIDIA research channels.