Megatron-LM license, foundation and stars
ML frameworks · Custom or mixed (see the LICENSE file) (source-available) · backed by Nvidia · 18,006 stars
Ongoing research training transformer models at scale
License history
LICENSE fileCustom or mixed (see the LICENSE file) No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2019.
Latest release
No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).
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About and history
- Repository
- NVIDIA/Megatron-LM · created Mar 21, 2019
- Website
- docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/get-started/quickstart.html
- Language
- Python
- Foundation
- None; run by Nvidia
- Company
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- GitHub detects
- NOASSERTION (a custom or multi-license file; the license above is read from the file itself)
- Stars per week
- From the second weekly snapshot
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 18,006 |
Changes
| What changed | |
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| Sep 25, 2026 | TrackedAdded: NVIDIA/Megatron-LM |