AWS Trainium Frontier competition: Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips
Amazon Science 2 months ago 11
AWS is running the AWS Trainium Frontier competition to let teams co-design language-model training setups and optional custom kernels for AWS Trainium, to see what architectures perform best under different hardware constraints. Phase 1 uses a single Trainium2 chip with a 30-minute training budget scored by validation bits-per-byte (val_bpb). The competition is progressing from a single-chip, single-metric test to a four-hour, top-10-team Phase 2 that also adds a 50/50 composite including CORE inference performance.