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Megatron-LM license, foundation and stars

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Ongoing research training transformer models at scale

License history

LICENSE file

Custom 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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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
52 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 2, 202618,315
Oct 19, 202618,252
Oct 12, 202618,148
Sep 28, 202618,067
Sep 21, 202618,006

Changes

Stars per weekNov 2, 2026

Gains about 52 stars a week, down from 62.

Stars per weekOct 23, 2026

Gains about 62 stars a week, up from 47.

Stars per weekOct 14, 2026

Gains about 47 stars a week, down from 61.

Stars per weekOct 4, 2026

Gains about 61 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from NVIDIA/Megatron-LM on GitHub.