MosaicML lore: DBRX pretraining was launched from a bar
NaveenGRao · x · 2026-09-18
A nostalgic exchange from former MosaicML folks: the Margaritaville-themed bar was their happy-hour spot of choice, and DBRX's pretraining run was kicked off from the '5 O'Clock Somewhere' bar — startup lore from the early LLM era.
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