Sophia: A Breakthrough Approach to Accelerating Large Language Model Pretraining

A team at Stanford has developed Sophia, a new approach that optimizes pretraining of LLMs. Using the two key techniques, it could help researchers to train LLMs in half the time, thus reducing costs and making it affordable for small organizations and academic groups.

Feb 11, 2025 - 12:27
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Sophia: A Breakthrough Approach to Accelerating Large Language Model Pretraining
A team at Stanford has developed Sophia, a new approach that optimizes pretraining of LLMs. Using the two key techniques, it could help researchers to train LLMs in half the time, thus reducing costs and making it affordable for small organizations and academic groups.