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Yep that's the one. Curious roughly how many A100s it'd take to train a 65B RWKV on that.



Really bad napkin math as no one has attempted 65B (so +\- 50%)

8 x 8 x 8 A100, should be able to do a 100k++ tokens/s at that size

With a dataset of 1.2 trillion tokens. That’s 12 million seconds. Or 140 days

(PS: this is why everyone is training <60B, its crazy the cost, even if my math estimate is wrong by 300%, its still a crazy number)


Thank you! 888 is 512 A100s, that is indeed pretty expensive.




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