Guanhua Wang, a Senior Researcher in the DeepSpeed team at Microsoft, dives into the revolutionary Domino training engine, designed to eliminate communication overhead during LLM training. He discusses the intricacies of naming the Phi-3 model and the growing interest in smaller language models. Wang highlights advanced techniques like data offloading and quantization, showcasing how Domino can speed up training by up to 1.3x compared to existing methods, while addressing privacy in customizable copilot models. It's a deep dive into optimizing AI training!