Replit - How to train your own Large Language Models

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Learn how Replit trains Large Language Models (LLMs) using Databricks, Hugging Face, and MosaicML Introduction Large Language Models, like OpenAI's GPT-4 or Google's PaLM, have taken the world of artificial intelligence by storm. Yet most companies don't currently have the ability to train these models, and are completely reliant on only a handful of large tech firms as providers of the technology. At Replit, we've invested heavily in the infrastructure required to train our own Large Language Models from scratch. In this blog post, we'll provide an overview of how we train LLMs, from raw…

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