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-### Acknowledgements
+### Acknowledgments
 
 This implementation extends on [Lit-LLaMA](https://github.com/lightning-AI/lit-llama) and [nanoGPT](https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT), and it's **powered by [Lightning Fabric](https://lightning.ai/docs/fabric/stable/) ⚡**.