LLMThis class explains why data is the most important part of building language models. You learn where text data comes from (books, the web, and human feedback) and what each source is good and bad at. The instructor stresses that most of your time in real projects goes into finding, collecting, cleaning, and filtering data, not model code.

This session explains how to speed up and scale training when one GPU or a simple setup is not enough. It reviews data parallelism (split data across devices) and pipeline parallelism (split model across devices), then dives into practical fixes for their main bottlenecks. The key tools are gradient accumulation, virtual batch size, and interleaved pipeline stages. Youβll learn the tradeβoffs between memory use, communication overhead, and idle time.