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The Introduction of the GShard 600-Billion Parameter Scale

    Google systems engineers deployed GShard, a module that utilized Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing and conditional computation to scale Sparsely-Gated Transformer architectures to 600 billion parameters. This framework demonstrated that sparse models could maximize algorithmic capacity while utilizing a fraction of the compute required by dense networks.

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