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The science behind Amazon SageMaker’s distributed-training engines

Amazon just made training massive AI models 40% cheaper. Here's the tech that's changing enterprise AI economics.

Reporting by Amazon Science 1 min brief
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Amazon's SageMaker distributed training engines are lowering the technical and cost barriers for enterprises to train large-scale AI models, potentially democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities for businesses that couldn't afford massive compute infrastructure.

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  1. Data-parallel and model-parallel training engines

  2. Distributed training across multiple instances

  3. Cost and time reduction for neural network training

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Publisher excerpt: How SageMaker’s data-parallel and model-parallel engines make training neural networks easier, faster, and cheaper.
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