DBRX Pretraining Was Kicked Off From a Bar, Recalls MosaicML Alum
soldni · x · 2026-09-19
John Frankle recalls that DBRX pretraining was kicked off from the 5 O'Clock Somewhere bar, MosaicML's happy hour spot of choice. soldni jokes he's still sad StarCoder never took him there for "business."
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