Evidence-backed signal

Frontier model scaling increasingly depended on distributed-systems software and high-bandwidth multi-pod networking, not only on adding accelerator chips.

supported inference 97% confidence increasing

Downward provenance

signal

Frontier model scaling increasingly depended on distributed-systems software and high-bandwidth multi-pod networking, not only on adding accelerator chips.

supported_inference

supported inference

97% confidence

event

Google introduces PaLM 540B trained across multiple TPU v4 Pods

Mon Apr 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

99% confidence

artifact

PaLM 540B and Pathways multi-pod training

research_release

art-palm-20220404

original source

Pathways Language Model (PaLM): Scaling to 540 Billion Parameters for Breakthrough Performance

Google Research

src-google-palm-blog-20220404