Training Llama 3.3 Swallow: A Japanese sovereign LLM on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod

This post is based on a technical report written by Kazuki Fujii, who led the Llama 3.3 Swallow model development. The Institute of Science Tokyo has successfully trained Llama 3.3 Swallow, a 70-billion-parameter large language model (LLM) with enhanced Japanese capabilities, using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. The model demonstrates superior performance in Japanese language tasks, outperforming…

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UK, Europe e-commerce order volumes rose 18% in Q2

UK-based e-tailers saw their ​local and European e-commerce order volumes increasing by 18% year on year in Q2, helped by widespread warmer weather that boosted sales in multiple categories. Scurri And for June alone, gross merchandise value (GMV) jumped 25%, according to Scurri Unpacked data. Temperatures reached record levels in many countries in the last two…

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