SkyPilot has detailed a scheduling approach designed to maximize the benefit of NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell NVL72 racks, which link 72 GPUs via a unified NVLink fabric instead of relying on InfiniBand across nodes. The company says its platform preserves rack-locality for multi-node training jobs through topology-aware placement, in-place recovery from hardware failures, and automatic defragmentation of shared clusters.
skypilot.ai
· 2026-10-29
Mistral released Large 4, a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, in a research preview this week, with full weights due at the end of October. Independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis scored it 38 on its Intelligence Index, making it the top model from outside the US and China, though several Chinese open models including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and MiMo-V2.6-Pro scored as high or higher overall. Large 4 scored 50 on Artificial Analysis's Cyber Index, tying GLM-5.3-Flash, and hit 82% on the CyberGym-E2E-AA cybersecurity test, its best individual result.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-09
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