When it comes to training large AI models, people will think about using thousands of GPUs, expensive training costs, and only a few tech giants can afford them. While AI users, like researchers from startups or universities, could do nothing but get overwhelmed by news about large models~

Now, a PC with only one GPU can train GPT with up to 18 billion parameters, and a laptop can also train a model with more than one billion parameters. Compared with the existing mainstream solutions, the parameter capacity can be increased by more than ten times!

Such a significant improvement comes from Colossal-AI, which is an efficient training system for general large AI models. Best of all, it’s completely open-sourced and requires only minimal modifications to allow existing deep learning projects to be trained with much larger models on a single consumer-grade graphics card, allowing everyone to train large AI models at home! In particular, it makes downstream tasks and application deployments such as large AI model fine-tuning and inference much easier! Read More