Tri Dao, the creator of the FlashAttention technique, is facing a new challenge as he works with the fast-paced LLM open source community. FlashAttention is a technique that allows developers to increase the amount of information that can be incorporated into a language model’s context window more efficiently. Dao recently joined Together, a startup that focuses on open source language models and associated technology. Dao’s work with FlashAttention has gained widespread recognition and integration into popular frameworks like Hugging Face and PyTorch. The open source community presents a learning curve for academics transitioning from academia to more production-level environments. Together aims to create accessible and collaborative open source language models with practical applications.
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