Dynamo AI pretrains an 8-billion-parameter multilingual LLM in 10 days using Databricks Training
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Dynamo AI, a startup building compliance-focused generative AI guardrail products, used Databricks Training to pretrain its Dynamo 8B multilingual foundation model in 10 days, achieving roughly a 20% training speedup after Databricks' AI Research team helped resolve a memory-leakage issue. The model now underpins Dynamo AI's commercial evaluation, remediation and deployment products for regulated GenAI use cases like customer support, onboarding, claims processing and fraud detection.
Overview
Dynamo AI, a startup building compliance-focused generative AI guardrail products, used Databricks Training to pretrain its Dynamo 8B multilingual foundation model in 10 days, achieving roughly a 20% training speedup after Databricks' AI Research team helped resolve a memory-leakage issue. The model now underpins Dynamo AI's commercial evaluation, remediation and deployment products for regulated GenAI use cases like customer support, onboarding, claims processing and fraud detection.
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Inspect the highlighted sourceThe challenge
Dynamo AI wanted a foundation model with enterprise-compliant guardrailing across specific industries and regions that supported multilingual tasks, and found no open source model that could do the same thing, so it needed to train its own.
The solution
Dynamo AI used Databricks Training's out-of-the-box training scripts and GPU availability on demand to pretrain its Dynamo 8B foundation model, with the Databricks AI Research team helping diagnose a memory-leakage issue that was slowing the run and estimating data needs from prior Databricks MPT and DBRX training work.
Reported business value
Dynamo AI pretrained its 8-billion-parameter multilingual LLM in just 10 days, about 20% faster than on competing platforms, and went from model experimentation to revenue generation in just a few months with commercial products for multilingual customer support, customer onboarding, claims processing and fraud detection.
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