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VIDRAFT Trains a Language Model from Scratch on NPUs — No GPUs Required

VIDRAFT Trains a Language Model from Scratch on NPUs — No GPUs Required TL;DR: Korean Pre-AGI startup VIDRAFT has pre-trained a large language model using NPUs (Neural Processing Units) instead of GPUs, challenging the industry assumption that GPU clusters are the only viable path for LLM pre-train…

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  1. 2026-10-15 03:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    VIDRAFT Trains a Language Model from Scratch on NPUs — No GPUs Required

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