LARGEST DISTRIBUTED LLM TRAINING JOB ON 50K+ CHIPS

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Google ran a MaxText + Jax training job on an unbelievable amount of chips concurrently while maintaining 66+ utilization, creating a strong contender for the best possible MFU. The project was mostly built on proprietary technology, but it showcases some interesting tidbits for other large-scale distributed computing groups.