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Foundational model training represents one of the most resource intensive processes in AI. Teams spend millions on training compute. Yet, even a single failure can bring your entire training cluster to a complete halt. This forces a restart from your last saved checkpoint. For years, builders have been limited by this restart to recover approach. It drains storage. It leaves multi-million dollar clusters sitting idle and slows down time to market. [music] As training clusters scale to thousands of nodes, the likelihood of failure increases and as a result, the overhead of checkpointbased recovery grows significantly. Checkpointless training on Amazon SageMaker Hyperod changes everything. Instead of constantly saving and reloading checkpoints, HyperPod preserves model states continuously across the cluster without incurring any extra memory storage. When a fault occurs, HyperPot automatically swaps out faulty components on the fly using peer-to-peer transfer of model and optimizer states from healthy AI accelerators. By doing this, HyperPod is able to recover training in minutes without any manual intervention or needing to restart training from [music] previously saved checkpoints. And that means no lost progress, no wasted compute, and no time spent recovering from faults during [music] model training. Teams can reclaim hours from development timelines [music] and confidently scale their model training workloads. Checkpointless training has transformed how we build AI models at scale. Even when training models with [music] thousands of AI accelerators, recovery from faults happens instantly. So you can innovate faster with more efficiency and at lower cost. Get started today with checkpointless training on [music] Amazon SageMaker Hyperod.