Can an Inference-Only NPU Pretrain an LLM? We Trained 325M Parameters from Zero and Matched a B200
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TL;DR Yes, an inference-only NPU can pretrain a language model, if the training stack is built for it. We pretrained VKORE-325M-NPU-Base (325.6M parameters) from random initialization on the Rebellions ATOM-Max , a commercially available Korean NPU released in 2025 and designed for inference. We tr…
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- 2026-10-26 05:53 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Can an Inference-Only NPU Pretrain an LLM? We Trained 325M Parameters from Zero and Matched a B200