# Bad Influence story: Google adds long-context training to MaxText on Cloud TPUs

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-08 19:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/6253fdde-ef39-41b7-b676-e6bdbcd426c8

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Latest update (11-08 19:00): Google adds long-context training support to MaxText on Cloud TPUs

Overview: Google Cloud announces long-context training support in MaxText, its open-source JAX training framework, with four context-parallel strategies on Cloud TPU. The feature is available in MaxText v0.2.4 on PyPI, in the corresponding Docker images, and on GitHub main.

Google says Llama 3.1 8B reaches 70% Model FLOPs Utilization on TPU 5p at sequence lengths up to 4 million tokens. It says context can extend to 14 million tokens on TPU 7, with MFU staying at 50% below 6 million tokens.

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1. 11-08 19:00 · Google Developers Blog (from the company) · [Google adds long-context training support to MaxText on Cloud TPUs](https://badinfluence.news/items/jpej5ktavif0qksewtsaw3swj)
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