Megatron-LM
NVIDIAMegatron Core 0.17.1, released May 28, 2026 (GitHub releases). Companion Megatron-Bridge 0.4.0 (Apr 2026). Confirmed to exist as of June 2026.
Megatron Core 0.17.1, released May 28, 2026 (GitHub releases). Companion Megatron-Bridge 0.4.0 (Apr 2026). Confirmed to exist as of June 2026.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- BSD-3-Clause(OSI, NVIDIA core)+Apache-2.0/MIT(OSI, vendored components)
- source
- public
- restriction
- attribution/change-notice only
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
Adoption
3 high confidenceFoundational large-scale training library; directly inspired/underpins Colossal-AI, HuggingFace Accelerate, NVIDIA NeMo. Used to train models 2B-462B params across thousands of GPUs. User base is concentrated among large-model training teams (smaller absolute headcount than inference tools). 16.6k stars. Level 3 reflects specialist-but-influential reach; no clean download count verified.
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://developer.nvidia.com/megatron-core recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
Capability
5 high confidenceState-of-the-art parallelism (TP/PP/DP/EP/CP), mixed precision FP16/BF16/FP8/FP4; benchmarked training of 462B-param model on 6144 H100 GPUs. Reference-grade large-scale transformer training infra. No MLPerf-Training submission verified for the library itself, so basis is feature_matrix plus NVIDIA-reported scaling benchmarks.
- https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
- https://developer.nvidia.com/megatron-core recorded 2026-06-04
flagship phase-C verification source
Unchanged since 2026-06-09 (last edited, not re-checked)