v4 surfaced the concrete bf16 trigger: dim768 fp32 OOMs at per-rank batch 32 (global 256) in 32GB, forcing per-rank 16 (global 128). bf16 (halve activation mem) would restore the batch-256 sweet spot. Record it on KI-2; keep KI-2 as the backlog item it is (still deferred). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>