Run MaxText

Choose your environment and orchestration method to run MaxText.

💻 Localhost / Single VM

Get started quickly on a single machine. Clone the repo, install dependencies, and run your first training job on a single TPU or GPU VM.

Via localhost or single-host VM

🎮 Single-host GPU

Run MaxText on single-host NVIDIA GPUs (e.g., A3 High/Mega). Includes Docker setup, NVIDIA Container Toolkit installation, and 1B/7B model training examples.

Via single-host GPU

🏗️ At scale with XPK (GKE)

Deploy to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) using XPK. Orchestrate large-scale training jobs on TPU or GPU clusters with simple CLI commands.

At scale with XPK

🌐 Multi-host via Pathways

Run large-scale JAX jobs on TPUs using Pathways. Supports batch and headless (interactive) workloads on GKE.

Via Pathways

🔌 Decoupled Mode

Run tests and local development without Google Cloud dependencies (no gcloud, GCS, or Vertex AI required).

Via Decoupled Mode (No Google Cloud Dependencies)

♻️ Elastic training (demo)

Demonstrate fault-tolerant training with Pathways on GKE: lose a TPU slice mid-run and recover in-process from the last checkpoint, no job restart.

Elastic training with Pathways