12 posts with tag llm

Cluster Scale 2026: Colossus, Stargate, Project Rainier

From 16K to 1M-GPU systems — how xAI built Colossus in 122 days, how AWS deployed 500K Trainium2 chips for Anthropic, and what OpenAI's $500B Stargate commitment actually covers.

· 3 minutes reading time

Pre-Training Data Sources & Token Budgets: From Common Crawl to 36T Tokens

Where 2026 frontier LLMs get their pre-training data — Common Crawl, FineWeb, DCLM, StackV2, multilingual, PDFs — and how Qwen 3, DeepSeek-V3, Llama 3.1 sized their corpora.

· 2 minutes reading time

Frontier AI Training Hardware in 2026: H100, H200, GB200 NVL72, TPU Ironwood, Trainium2/3

Side-by-side specifications of every chip and pod system used at the 2026 LLM frontier, with primary-source numbers from NVIDIA, Google Cloud, and AWS.

· 4 minutes reading time

Mixture-of-Experts Design: DeepSeek-V3, Qwen 3, Llama 4 Compared

Fine-grained experts, shared experts, auxiliary-loss-free routing — the modern MoE recipe in 2026, with side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V3, Qwen 3, Llama 4.

· 1 minute reading time